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Ep. 365: Scheler on Love (Part One)

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:46:11
Publish Date: 2025-04-21 10:39:31
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On The Nature of Sympathy (1922), Part II: "Love and Hatred." What is love, and how does it relate to ethics and to sympathy?

For Scheler, love is a primitive, spontaneous movement from lower to higher values: We see the best in the love one and thereby help enable them to attain that excellence. So is love foundational for value, or is value foundational for love? The two seem to arise together.

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