Phenomenology of love: The Destructive and Constructive Nature of Love

The inner logic of love (the Phenomenology of the life experience of love)

One of the most important issues in social life, that have been busy human minds in different ways is "romantic relationships." The purpose of this study was explored the life experience of love and discover of its inner logic. For this purpose, with a phenomenological approach, 14 students (Isfahan University and Isfahan University of Technology) who had experienced "love" were interviewed in ...

The Nature of Love

Love is a wondrous state, deep, tender, and rewarding. Because of its intimate and personal nature it is regarded by some as an improper topic for experimental research. But, whatever our personal feelings may be, our assigned mission as psychologists is to analyze all facets of human and animal behavior into their component variables. So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists hav...

Maternal Love in Nature

my privilege to enjoy with the eminent Utrecht Professor, Iieer J. L. C. Schroeder van der Kolk, in reference to an important physiological work of his, which I have translated and edited for the New Sydenham Society, the author was good enough to send me, with some other minor essays, a copy of a dissertation read by him before the Physical Society of Utrecht, at one of the meetings to which l...

Love in the Time of Corona

Ethics of Love? Morality and the Meaning of Divine Love

While there is wide agreement on the importance of love to Christian ethics, just what an ethics of love includes and entails differs depending upon how Christian love is understood. Toward clarifying the relationship between love and Christian ethics, this essay briefly engages the highly influential agapist conception of love and questions its sufficiency as the basis of Christian ethics. Con...

“What Is This Love That Loves Us?”: Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder as a Phenomenology of Love

Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder (2013) considers the relationship of Divine Love with the individual soul, and its corresponding relationships to the other as neighbor. In this article, I analyze the congruency of Malick’s form and content by correlating the relationship of his dynamic, existential filmmaking style with the film’s phenomenologically constructed plotline. Jean-Luc Marion’s pheno...