Abstract
AbstractDuring recent decades there has been an upsurge of studies exploring the nature and conditions of human love. This article examines an original and consciously Christian approach by the Hungarian‐French philosopher, Miklós Vetö, who builds his innovative account of love on trinitarian foundations (Court traité sur l'amour, L'Harmattan, 2020). His ‘expanded’ metaphysics lays bare the theological content of philosophical assumptions, and it also rethinks traditional theological themes in a novel conceptual way. Our survey proceeds in three consecutive steps. First, it reflects on the overall shape of Vetö's project and on his distinctive view of the relationship between the philosophical and the theological enterprise. Second, it investigates some key concepts of Vetö's (uncompleted) philosophy of God and central elements of his conception of divine love. Third, it examines Vetö's phenomenological analyses of various forms of human love in order to outline the pivotal building blocks of his novel approach, which, however, provokes further questions and invites one to revitalise both the theological and the philosophical quest for a better understanding of this ceaselessly intriguing topic.
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