This document discusses obstacles to dialogue such as seeming speechifying and imposition rather than personal engagement. It also discusses tendencies like analytical, reductive, and derivational thinking that make dialogue difficult. Additionally, it examines ways people address loneliness such as escapism, conformity, and creative or productive activities. Finally, it outlines essential characteristics of love including that love is historical, total, eternal, and sacred.
This document discusses obstacles to dialogue such as seeming speechifying and imposition rather than personal engagement. It also discusses tendencies like analytical, reductive, and derivational thinking that make dialogue difficult. Additionally, it examines ways people address loneliness such as escapism, conformity, and creative or productive activities. Finally, it outlines essential characteristics of love including that love is historical, total, eternal, and sacred.
This document discusses obstacles to dialogue such as seeming speechifying and imposition rather than personal engagement. It also discusses tendencies like analytical, reductive, and derivational thinking that make dialogue difficult. Additionally, it examines ways people address loneliness such as escapism, conformity, and creative or productive activities. Finally, it outlines essential characteristics of love including that love is historical, total, eternal, and sacred.
present Imposition Unfolding T E N D E N C I E S THA T M A K E D I A L O G U E A N D P E R S O N A L M A K I N G PRESENT DIFFICULT Analytical thinking when we break person into parts
Reductive thinking when we reduce the richness of a person
to a schema, a structure, and/or a concept Derivational thinking when we derive the person from a mixed formula WAYS BY W H I C H PEOPLE A D D R E S S LONEL I NESS
Escapism Use of drugs, rituals, sex, and alcoholto
find one’s self Conformity with groups Joining group, organization, club or fraternity
Creative and productive Planning, producing and seeing the result
work or activity of a hobby, pastime or passion ESSENTIAL C H A RA C T ER I S T I CS OF LOVE Love is historical because the other is a concrete particular person with his/her own being history Love is total because persons are indivisible.
Love is eternal because love is not given only for a
limited period of time. Love is sacred because in love, persons are valuable in themselves.
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