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Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes.

What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components.

What is the role of consciousness in the cycle of birth, life, and death? How do we, as unique individuals, find our place in the Universe? Do we all have the innate power to manifest our greatest desires into reality? Join actress and musician Kat Graham as she sits down with Deepak Chopra, M.D...

Dans ce livre audio, plus de cent auteurs du monde entier dévoilent les secrets et se penchent sur les mécanismes de l’amour. Au cœur de nos vies, ce sentiment intense est ici traité sous toutes ses coutures et selon des approches variées. Sociologues, anthropologues, neuroscientifiques, psychologues ou sexologues, c'est avec des mots simples et de manière accessible que ces chercheurs nous font part de leurs opinions, analyses et expérimentations minutieuses.

Hvordan lever man som menneske i kærlighed og visdom? Dette spørgsmål svarer Birte Osholms bog "Kærlighed og visdom" på. Den vil skabe kærlighedens velfærdssamfund. Ægte velfærd virkeliggøres nemlig først, når det er kærligheden, der sætter dagsordenen og ikke det materielle. Når indre værdier realiseres og derigennem bliver til velfærd - mellem mennesker. Med andre ord er bogen mellem linierne en kærlig kritik af vort materielle velfærdssamfund, som ikke levner kærligheden mellem mennesker mange chancer.

This poignant philosophy about the human capacity for love in the face of tragedy from New York Times bestselling author Erich Fromm is as relevant today as it was when it was first broadcast. Transcribed from a series of recorded conversations streamed over German public radio in 1970, the profound ideas and thoughts collected in this volume represent a lifetime of the renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher's explorations into human emotion and behavior throughout the twentieth century.

De los antiguos filósofos estoicos -Séneca, Epicteto y Marco Aurelio-, podemos aprender cómo vivir con sabiduría, templanza, justicia y valentía. La sabiduría necesaria para distinguir la realidad de nuestras interpretaciones, y así saber que no todo lo que pensamos es la verdad. Templanza para darle espacio a nuestras emociones, sin permitir que nos controlen. Justicia para reconocer lo correcto, incluso cuando somos nosotros quienes estamos equivocados. Y valentía para hacer lo que está bien, incluso cuando es difícil. En especial cuando es difícil.

To live in this world with intelligence, in spite of all the complications. Is it possible to be free of fear, not only the superficial fear in relationship but the deep-rooted fear? Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure. When you are learning, your mind is awake. Truth isn’t second-hand; you can’t get it through a guru, a book, you have to learn about it. The beauty of learning is that you don’t know what truth is. What is love?

Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions. Can we choose who to love? Is romantic love rational? Can we love more than one person at a time? And can we make ourselves fall out of love? In On Romantic Love, Berit Brogaard attempts to get to the bottom of love's many contradictions.