Petr Kouba on love.
As long as being-in-the-world in its
whole is imbued with the idea of power, manifested both in the consummate sovereignty
with which one takes care of one’s own existence, and the fatalism with
which one embraces his/her own finitude, being-beyond-the-world, necessarily
stands beyond all power and powerlessness. The crucial moment of being-beyond-the-
world is not the individual determination to take over the burden of one’s own
existence or the effort to shun it, but a gift that renders individual existence richer
and more complete than it could ever become on its own. This gift is not given by
our loving counterpart either, as it is given to both of us. The act of giving, occurring
in love, happens as a revelation, as self-manifestation of the infinite and eternal
intimacy. Those to whom the gift is given are not required to do anything but to
remain gratefully in the openness that is revealed in the loving encounter.
P. 42
From
The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder: Perspectives of Heidegger’s Thought in Psychopathology.
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