Sociology of Love by Gennaro Iorio

Author:Gennaro Iorio [Iorio, Gennaro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781622739950
Google: I5PaDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 2020-10-06T02:38:28+00:00

This type’s motivation is not personal love or the answer to the great problem of suffering, but the mystic’s own salvation. Mystical love, according to Weber , “involves a search for individual salvation in the emotional state of love for love's sake. All people are treated equally as merely a means toward this end.” For this reason, from the point of view of an ethic of love that maintains a certain sense of subjectivity, the other’s importance and his suffering will be judged as essentially egoistical. These points in the analysis are reinforced by Weber ’s examination of fraternal mystical love found in Buddhism. According to Weber , Buddhism has a “cool temperance” (Weber [1916-1917] 1958, p. 208, [1916-1917] 1996, p. 332), which “guarantees the internal detachment from all 'thirst' for the world and men” (Weber [1916-1917] 1958, p. 208; see also [1921] 1978, p.628). Here, and only here, lies real salvation. An altruistic ethic of universal compassion is only a step on the road towards enlightenment:

“the specific form of Buddhist ‘altruism,’ universal compassion, is merely one stage which sensitivity passes when seeing through the nonsense of the struggle for existence of all individuals in the wheel of life, a sign of progressive intellectual enlightenment, not, however, an expression of active brotherliness. In the rules for contemplation, compassion is expressly defined as being replaced, in the final state of mind, by the stoic equanimity of the knowing man” (Weber [1916-1917] 1958, p. 213).

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