Episode 133: Erich Fromm on Love as an Art
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2016
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
On Fromm's The Art of Loving (1956). What is love, really? This psychoanalyst of the Frankfurt school thinks that real love is not something one "falls" into, but is an art, an activity, and doing it well requires a disciplined openness and psychological health.
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| 0:40.1 | Our question for episode 133 is, what is love, properly understood, |
| 0:45.7 | and we read the art of loving from Eric From from 1956. |
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| 0:58.9 | This is Seth Paskin thinking that the question for the episode should have been stated more like, |
| 1:03.5 | what is love, anyway? |
| 1:08.7 | Is anybody love anybody, anyway? |
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