Love and Will
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Love and Will is a book by American
existential psychologist
Rollo May
, in which he articulates the principle that an awareness of death is essential to life, rather than being opposed to life.
The book explores how the modern loss of older values, whose structures and stories provided society with explanations of the mysteries of life, forces contemporary humanity to choose between finding meaning within themselves or decide that neither they, nor life, has meaning.
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Rollo May
Rollo May
Rollo May was an American existential psychologist. He authored the influential book Love and Will during 1969. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy. May was a close friend of the theologian Paul Tillich...
, in which he articulates the principle that an awareness of death is essential to life, rather than being opposed to life.
The book explores how the modern loss of older values, whose structures and stories provided society with explanations of the mysteries of life, forces contemporary humanity to choose between finding meaning within themselves or decide that neither they, nor life, has meaning.