Response to "Pure Love" by Robert Merrihew Adams
The author accepts Adams' conclusion that love inextricably includes an element of self-concern. The author adds that strands of selflessness and self-concern make all human love self-contradictory and conflicted. Against the champions of pure love as the Christian ideal, he argues that both st...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1980
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1980, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-104 |
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Summary: | The author accepts Adams' conclusion that love inextricably includes an element of self-concern. The author adds that strands of selflessness and self-concern make all human love self-contradictory and conflicted. Against the champions of pure love as the Christian ideal, he argues that both strands are essentially good, neither superior to the other. The conflicted love can be, in total essence, a good Christian love. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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