How does love affect philosophy? A common theme in this collection of essays is that in order to do philosophy one must already love, so how does that love transform the philosophy as a result?



Reflections on the first essay by Wirzba "The Primacy of Love": - strikes me from his reading of Paul that a difference between Buddhism and Christianity is the recognition that love in the western sense is necessary in order to know God - to love God as other. If so, then Pope Benedict XVI's point in "Truth and Tolerance" that Christianity is an advance over Buddhism fits the evolutionary model since Christianity is a more highly evolved understanding of Man's relationship to the Divine.