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Apr 2025
52m 55s

Ep. 365: Scheler on Love (Part Two)

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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We conclude our treatment of Max Scheler's The Nature of Sympathy (1922), getting further into the Part II of the book about love and hatred and grappling with the puzzles about what exactly it is we love about someone (the "personality").

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