Ways & Power Of Love: Techniques Of Moral Transformation

Pitirim A. Sorokin

Templeton Foundation Press, Oct 22, 2015 - Psychology - 584 pages

The Ways and Power of Love was originally published in 1954 when Pitirim Sorokin was in the twilight of his career and leading the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism. His elaborate scientific analysis of love with regard to its higher and lower forms, its causes and effects, its human and cosmic significance, and its core features constitutes the first study on this topic in world literature to date.

Sorokin was the one absolutely essential twentieth-century pioneer in the study of love at the interface of science and religion. Bringing The Ways and Power of Love back into print allows a new generation of readers to appreciate Sorokin's genius and to move forward with his endeavor at a time when civilization itself continues to be threatened by a marked inability to live up to the ideal of love for all humankind. It is certainly right to hope, with Sorokin, that progress in knowledge about love can move humanity forward to a better future. Turning the sciences toward the study of love is no easy task, but it can and must be done.

Contents

• The Manifoldness of Love and Its Main Aspects: 3
• The FiveDimensional Universe of Psychosocial Love: 15
• Tentative Considerations on Production Accumulation: 36
• Power of Creative Love: 47
• Mental Structure and Energies of Man: 83
• of man The unconscious in man The bioconscious in man The socioconscious: 98
• Forms and Ways of Personality Integration and Creativity: 115
• Supreme Love and the Supraconscious: 125
• Three Types of Altruists and Three Courses: 144
• Ideological and Behavioral Altruistic SelfIdentification: 175
• Factors in the Early Integration of the Fortunate: 184
• Inner Conflicts and Precipitating Factors: 206
• Types of Altruistic Rearrangement of Group Affiliations: 232
• Trials and Pains of Reintegration of Behavior: 255
• Types of Control of Biological Drives: 273
• The EgoCentered and the EgoTranscending Forms: 287
• The Techniques of Altruistic Transformation continued: 309
• The Techniques of Altruistic Transformation concluded: 332
• The Unified Techniques of Patanjalis and Other Yogas: 356
• 2O The Monastic System of Techniques: 377
• Techniques of Contemporary Free Brotherhoods 44 I: 441
• From Tribal Egoism to Universal Altruism: 459
• I: 495
• Index of Names: 537
• Index of Subjects: 547

About the author

Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889–1968) was a controversial figure in twentieth-century sociology, and a pioneer in the scientific study of unlimited love. He served as the founding chairman of the sociology department of Harvard University. He was interested in discovering more about how love for others is related to felt participation in a Presence that is higher than our own and that serves as a source of unlimited love across all divisions of religious, political, and ethnic loyalties.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ways & Power Of Love: Techniques Of Moral Transformation
• Author: Pitirim A. Sorokin
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press, 2015
• ISBN: 1599475022, 9781599475028
• Length: 584 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / General; Psychology / Social Psychology