The Science Of Love

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In The Science Of Love Raphael takes into consideration the human being in its totality as constituted therefore by body, Soul and Spirit, and examines Love as that powerful unifying impulse, which transmits the grace of joy, flooding and involving all it comes into contact with. As Dante himself stated, love "]]moves the sun and the other stars." In present-day culture the word "love" is taken primarily to indicate sex, and, even when speaking of feelings, they are always qualified in terms of sexual elements. Love is seen as fundamentally functional to the male-female polar sphere rather than to the man-woman aspect, or to that of the person having a body, a psyche and also a soul. If the five senses appreciate the beauty of the sensible world, in the journey leading towards the intellect of love, for people who want to live in a beautiful way, says Plato, what must guide them for their entire lives is not kinship, honors, riches or anything else, as none of these can inspire in suc

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