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Christian Love (Simmel's Reconstruction)
Simmel's philosophical reconstruction of Christian love as a distinct trans-vital love-form, structurally opposed to universal-philanthropy: Christian love embraces the total person — sinner as sinner, "without that 'in spite of'" (Oakes p…
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Individualism of Love
Simmel's spectrum from love-by-type to love-by-individuality — anchored in the contrast between Goethe's two cardinal couples: Faust/Gretchen (love by type; replaceability remains possible in principle) and Eduard/Ottilie (in Wahlverwandts…
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The Tragedy of Love (Simmel)
Simmel's philosophical articulation of love's tragic structure: love is tragic not because external fate destroys it, not because lovers collide with ethical substances, not because of any hamartia — but because love grows out of the life-…
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Universal Philanthropy
Simmel's articulation of a distinct trans-vital love-form: love directed at "everything that bears a human face" (Oakes p. 211), abstracted from individuality, kindred to but structurally distinct from both cosmic eros (pantheism of love)…