Antinomies of Love – Weakness and Power

Ryszard Kozłowski

The issue of love: eros and agape, enriched by its praxeological dimension of caritas, is engaging as it concerns life, development, and above all the personal identity of each person. This topic was clearly highlighted by Plato in his teaching and also presented today by Benedict XVI in his encyclical Deus Caritas Est. In this study Antinomies of Love – Weakness and Power, I show personal contexts in which love is present, and at the end I focus on anthropological and cultural consequences of using such model of interpretation. Most important, however, is that love is understood in the personal area of human existence. This makes it possible to get out of love new contents and meanings.