Was ist Liebe?

What is love? This book offers an answer to this fundamental question and examines love as an anthropological and ontological structure. It focuses on the concepts of love in Plato and Meister Eckhart, situated within their respective metaphysical-anthropological frameworks. The work connects the thought of antiquity, the Christian Middle Ages, and the present, highlighting systematic relationships among different ways of life and love, and tracing a possible developmental path of humans—from self-reference to world-reference to transcendence. Love appears as an active mode of knowledge and way of life, enabling humans to understand reality and themselves anew and to realize their potential.