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The zenith of John Paul II’s thought on the human person, marriage, and the family is found in his “theology of the body.” For the first time, William E. May provides a comprehensive yet readable overview of this work in the context of several other key writings of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, providing rich insights into its development. Works surveyed include Love and Responsibility, Familiaris...

4. the ethical analysis of love: love as a virtue and the personalistic norm. Put simply, love as attraction here means that a man, for instance, is attracted to a woman and vice versa, not merely because of sexual values but as a person of the opposite sex. Love as desire is, as it were, a “need love”: a person is in need of something—here “some one”—in order to fulfill or complete himself. It is not necessarily selfish but can become so; it is
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