Love and Friendship. Book 1: The Experience of Love. Book 2: Personal Friendship: The Experience and the Ideal (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)

Jules Toners Love and Friendship This volume brings together in a single binding Jules Toners classic treatise, The Experience of Love -out of print for many years and now made available again- and a new posthumous book here published for the first time, Personal The Experience and the Ideal. Toners Love and Friendship the work of a single vision, all the more credible for uniting in our emergent consciousness all three affection as the deepest dynamism of love, cognition as the questioning, understanding, and critically testing and judging intentionality, and, finally, volition that turns the affection and cognition into decision and action, into the affirmation in love that is commitment of one person to another and, in hope, to all. The experience of our affective dynamism toward universal human community is primary, and the way we understand its possibility secondary, including the Christian way he espouses at the end of the second book. From the Foreword Contents......Page 6 Editor’s Foreword......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 BOOK 1 ~ THE EXPERIENCE OF LOVE......Page 14 1 The Question and Procedure......Page 16 Part 1 Dialectical Survey 2 Love As Desire and Joy......Page 23 3 Love As Source of Desire and Joy or As Object of Desire......Page 40 Part 2 Descriptive Analysis of Experience 4 Radical Love......Page 62 5 Radical Love As Response......Page 84 6 Radical Love As Union......Page 103 7 Radical Love As Affirmation......Page 129 8 Radical Love As the Irreducible Root of the Total Concrete Experience of Love......Page 149 9 The Consummation of Radical Love: Communion......Page 165 BOOK 2 ~ PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP: THE EXPERIENCE AND THE IDEAL......Page 178 Contents for Book 2......Page 180 Dedication for Book 2......Page 182 Introduction......Page 184 Part 1 The Experience of Personal Love and Communion 1 A Preliminary Problem: Diverse Notions of Love......Page 188 2 A Solution of the problem: Descriptive Analysis of the Total Experience of Love......Page 193 3 Personal Love and Communion: Descriptive Analysis and Synthesis......Page 207 Part 2 The Experience of Personal Friendship 4 Friendship: The Basic Types......Page 217 5 Personal Friendship: Its Essential Features......Page 226 6 Sharing Lives in Personal Friendship......Page 240 7 Ideal of Mature Personal Friendship......Page 251 8 Personal Friendship and Mutual Romantic Love: Contrast and Relationship......Page 258 9 Transcendent Human Dynamism......Page 275 10 Dynamism to Personal Love, Communion, and Friendship......Page 283 11 Dynamism to Universal Personal Friendship......Page 291 12 Dynamism to Personal Friendship with God......Page 304 13 Dynamism to One Universally Inclusive Friendship......Page 311 Epilogue A Tragic Conclusion and the Hope of Overcoming It......Page 320 Bibliography......Page 322 Index......Page 327 Annotation This publication includes a reprint of Toner's 1968 work, (Corpus Instrumentorum, Inc., Washington, DC), and a new posthumous work on the experience of personal friendship. Toner identifies personal friendship as a different experience from any other kind of friendship. He uncovers and examines its essential features of which we are generally unaware and in bringing these features to light, envisions an ideal of personal friendship. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Bk. 1. The Experience Of Love -- Bk. 2. Personal Friendship : The Experience And The Ideal. Jules Toner. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [321]-325) And Index.