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Aither 16/2016(International issue no. 4):54-65 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2016.009

Love as Desire of the Good or Love as Value-response? Plato and von Hildebrand on the Essence of Love

Martin Cajthaml
Cyrilometodějská teologická fakulta CMTF

The aim of this paper is to compare Plato's and Dietrich von Hildebrand's philosophical account of the essence of love. The author proceeds by gradually working out the similarities and differences between the two accounts of love and by attempting to explain the differences between them, partly by identifying the different metaphysical assumptions of both authors. The main philosophical interest of this paper lies in showing how, in these two philosophical accounts of love, elements of desire of the object of love and elements of responsiveness to its value are contained, although, in each of the accounts, in different way and with different final outcome.

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Cajthaml, M. (2016). Love as Desire of the Good or Love as Value-response? Plato and von Hildebrand on the Essence of Love. Aither, 8(16), 54-65. doi: 10.5507/aither.2016.009
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