Furcht ist nicht in der Liebe: Philosophische Betrachtungen zu einem Satz des Evangelisten Johannes

Henrich's reflection takes its cue from a sentence of John, which emphasizes a characteristic of the partnership of man and woman in the spirit of Christianity: namely, that at its core it is the absence of fear for itself. John's theology of love is connected to this understanding of life. In his analysis of self-consciousness as an indubitable grounding, however, Henrich shows how a purely human understanding of love can be gained. Admittedly, real life bonds are most often formed and exp...