Bøger af David Goicoechea

Presents a collection of essays examining the variety of historical and contemporary humanist philosophies. This book focuses on the need for an awareness of humanist tradition. These essays offer progressive self-appraisals to illustrate how humanism will continue to grow as a vital and compelling intellectual force.

Features essays which are the proceedings of a conference on the importance of Irving Singer's work, reflecting his interests and focusing on his key distinction between love as appraisal and love as bestowal. This book assesses Singer's view of love.

Goicoechea shows how the three traits of personhood--that all persons are equal in dignity, that each is unique, and that all persons are interpersonal--is rooted in that love which is agape. This love between the three persons of the One God is examined existentially as mother lived it out in her love and personal growth. It is examined philosophically with Kierkegaard as he explains the logic of reconciling love, which can happen when I love the other, even my enemy, as more important than myself. The logic of reconciling love is then examined in Paul's seven authentic letters. The history of how humans became seen as persons and how this idea developed in the West is then examined through nine moments of history.