Love and Friendship: Book 1, Experience of Love, Book 2, Personal Friendship: The Experience and the Ideal

Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
BOOK 1 ~ THE EXPERIENCE OF LOVE......Page 14
1 The Question and Procedure......Page 16
Part 1 Dialectical Survey 2 Love As Desire and Joy......Page 23
3 Love As Source of Desire and Joy or As Object of Desire......Page 40
Part 2 Descriptive Analysis of Experience 4 Radical Love......Page 62
5 Radical Love As Response......Page 84
6 Radical Love As Union......Page 103
7 Radical Love As Affirmation......Page 129
8 Radical Love As the Irreducible Root of the Total Concrete Experience of Love......Page 149
9 The Consummation of Radical Love: Communion......Page 165
BOOK 2 ~ PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP: THE EXPERIENCE AND THE IDEAL......Page 178
Contents for Book 2......Page 180
Dedication for Book 2......Page 182
Introduction......Page 184
Part 1 The Experience of Personal Love and Communion 1 A Preliminary Problem: Diverse Notions of Love......Page 188
2 A Solution of the problem: Descriptive Analysis of the Total Experience of Love......Page 193
3 Personal Love and Communion: Descriptive Analysis and Synthesis......Page 207
Part 2 The Experience of Personal Friendship 4 Friendship: The Basic Types......Page 217
5 Personal Friendship: Its Essential Features......Page 226
6 Sharing Lives in Personal Friendship......Page 240
7 Ideal of Mature Personal Friendship......Page 251
8 Personal Friendship and Mutual Romantic Love: Contrast and Relationship......Page 258
9 Transcendent Human Dynamism......Page 275
10 Dynamism to Personal Love, Communion, and Friendship......Page 283
11 Dynamism to Universal Personal Friendship......Page 291
12 Dynamism to Personal Friendship with God......Page 304
13 Dynamism to One Universally Inclusive Friendship......Page 311
Epilogue A Tragic Conclusion and the Hope of Overcoming It......Page 320
Bibliography......Page 322
Index......Page 327