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Lest We Lose Love

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Lest We Lose Love is a most timely book that helps the reader to resume confidence in humanity’s future in the light of the present complex global crises. It enables people to find hope in our coll...
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Few are aware that since antiquity, there has always been the philosophy of love at the core of Western culture. It articulates what makes life meaningful and worthwhile, and how we can live a good life together through an ethic of love. This book fills this significant gap, not only reconnecting the reader with such important wisdom, and more crucially, also reorienting our socio-economic institutions and collective actions towards more loving and caring, and more concerned with the qualities of our lived experiences. By re(dis)covering the gifts of love, we may challenge the existing systemic dehumanisation, and draw from knowledge and understanding already present in our culture. This is timely because the global crises we are facing are catastrophic, especially when it comes to climate change. Therefore we must respond from a place of love rather than fear. Whether it is reducing the use of fossil fuels, lowering greenhouse emission, choosing the right food to eat, or advocating for structural transformation, our concerted endeavours start with an appropriate appreciation of the nature of our well-being which includes the planet’s well-ness. This book highlights a clear pathway forward: to ensure collective healing and co-flourishing with nature, we must practise the art of loving.

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Price: £19.99
Publisher: Anthem Press
Imprint: Anthem Press
Publication Date: 18 April 2023
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781839987625
Format: eBook
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PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion, RELIGION / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Psychology, Self-help, personal development and practical advice

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“Professor Gill addresses the global crisis of hope by combining the rich wellsprings of historic philosophy with today’s wavefront of systems and complexity science. She gives new life to the immortal concept of love, impoverished by excessive rationalism and enfeebled by romanticism. Her presentation of love as the doing of relationships, of caring and valuing people for themselves, is an inspiring foundation for living well and finding meaning today and tomorrow.” —John, Lord Alderdice FRCPsych, Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Time for a New Narrative; 2 A Threefold Framework for Understanding Love; 3 Love as Valuing; 4 Love as Relationing; 5 Love as Caring; 6 Love in Practice; 7 Towards a Paradigm of Love; Bibliography; Index