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The Art of Loving: Existential Alienation and the Nature of Love

Rev Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Politics, News, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Megan Devine joins Breht to discuss philosopher Erich Fromm's famous 1956 text "The Art of Loving", in which Fromm employs Marxist, Psychoanalytic, and Eastern Philosophical analysis to explore a core problem at the heart of the human condition: the existential anxiety wrought by our fundamental separation and how Love, in its broadest universal sense, points toward its overcoming. 

Philosophize This! on "The Art of Loving"

Outro Music: "Paul" by Big Thief

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

0:09.7

On today's episode I have my friend Megan Devine on to discuss Eric Froms, the art of

0:15.4

loving.

0:16.6

It's a really interesting text that ties together the social, the psychological, the political

0:22.4

and the spiritual, and I think is just a fascinating way to not only understand certain aspects

0:29.4

of human existence, but also as a wonderful way to sort of put an end cap on this little

0:33.9

sub-series I've just done over the last week or so.

0:37.7

Exploring different spiritual, psychological topic from Carl Jung through Buddhism and

0:44.4

Hinduism through the Michael Brooks tribute series episode to this one on the art of

0:50.9

loving, sort of tying all these things together.

0:54.4

I hope some of you really enjoyed this little deep dive into these topics that aren't

0:59.0

often covered on the left.

1:01.1

As I've said in my last introduction, all of March is going to go back to political topics

1:07.3

as usual, but I really wanted to investigate some of these ideas and I'll continue to,

1:12.5

as the show develops and unfolds, but you sort of got hit with a little rapid fire amount

1:17.8

of episodes, specifically on the psychological and spiritual topics that I'm deeply, deeply

1:23.3

interested in.

1:24.3

So this is a perfect little end cap to that, really loved this discussion.

1:30.0

As we say in the episode as well, there's this part in the book and that we discuss a

1:33.9

little bit in the episode, talking about the love of God, talking about Aristotelian logic,

1:39.7

first paradoxical logic, sort of Eastern and Western epistemic starting points that I've

1:45.6

found very interesting, and although we couldn't get into the full implications of that

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