On Scheler’s Metaphysics of Love: an Appraisal

In the following pages we are going to briefly recollect some of Scheler’s main arguments concerning the status of “affective life” and to try a sympathetic appraisal of the bearing of these theses. After resuming Scheler’s assessment of love and showing its conceptual connections with intentionali...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Andrea Zhok
Format: article
Langue:EN
FR
IT
Publié: Rosenberg & Sellier 2016
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/e240c9c2daad43f7a6b94f9526798976
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
Description
Résumé:In the following pages we are going to briefly recollect some of Scheler’s main arguments concerning the status of “affective life” and to try a sympathetic appraisal of the bearing of these theses. After resuming Scheler’s assessment of love and showing its conceptual connections with intentionality, spiritual values and sensuous corporeality, we shall sketch an account of the ontological and axiological role of love. Love turns out to be interpretable as a pervasive drive that shapes both natural and cultural history, while history, in its most comprehensive sense, is not viewed either as sheer contingency or as teleology, but rather as an exploratory cosmological venture.