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Love
Paperback Edition: 2011
What is love? What is it to be loved? Can we trust love? Is it overrated? These are just some of the questions Tony Milligan pursues in his novel exploration of a subject that has occupied philosophers since the time of Plato. Tackling the mood
of pessimism about the nature of love that reaches back through Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard, he examines the links between love and grief, love and nature, and between love of others and loving oneself. We love too few things in the world, Milligan concludes, adding that we need to be loved too, to appreciate our own value and the worth of life itself.
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Publisher : Acumen Publishing Ltd
Publication date : 2011-10
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: Emotions