The world of love
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Book Introduction
In such an unstable time,
Love is still the only language that understands humans
“The moment you rethink love, the world changes.”
We have only learned love as an 'emotion'.
But love is no longer explained solely in the language of emotions.
"The World Called Love" is a book that resurrects love as a question of existence and a subject of philosophy.
This book says:
“Love is a feeling towards someone and a way of looking at the world.”
Modern people talk about love, but they have lost its true meaning.
Amidst relationship fatigue, emotional burnout, and disconnection, love has increasingly been reduced to a 'private emotion.'
But this book goes against that trend.
It reestablishes love as the 'language of philosophical thought' and explores love as the fundamental condition for human existence.
"The World Called Love" is a philosophical journey to rediscover love.
Haruhiko Shiratori, author of the 2 million-copy bestseller "The First Translation of Nietzsche's Words," expands love, which has remained confined to the realm of emotion, into an ontological and ethical dimension, and asks why we must understand love.
He redefines love as a 'relationship with others' and a 'connection with the world', crossing over the thoughts of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Martin Buber, Max Scheler, and the Bible.
The author says, “Modern people, living in a secular world, have lost the sense to understand themselves.”
And that is where the journey of this book begins.
In an age filled with anxiety, "The World Called Love" revives love as "the oldest philosophy for understanding humanity."
Love is no longer a matter of romance, but rather approaches us as a philosophical language that questions human dignity and the possibilities of the world.
“Love is not an emotion, but a reason that sustains existence.”
This one sentence is the most fundamental question and comfort this book offers to its readers.
Love is still the only language that understands humans
“The moment you rethink love, the world changes.”
We have only learned love as an 'emotion'.
But love is no longer explained solely in the language of emotions.
"The World Called Love" is a book that resurrects love as a question of existence and a subject of philosophy.
This book says:
“Love is a feeling towards someone and a way of looking at the world.”
Modern people talk about love, but they have lost its true meaning.
Amidst relationship fatigue, emotional burnout, and disconnection, love has increasingly been reduced to a 'private emotion.'
But this book goes against that trend.
It reestablishes love as the 'language of philosophical thought' and explores love as the fundamental condition for human existence.
"The World Called Love" is a philosophical journey to rediscover love.
Haruhiko Shiratori, author of the 2 million-copy bestseller "The First Translation of Nietzsche's Words," expands love, which has remained confined to the realm of emotion, into an ontological and ethical dimension, and asks why we must understand love.
He redefines love as a 'relationship with others' and a 'connection with the world', crossing over the thoughts of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Martin Buber, Max Scheler, and the Bible.
The author says, “Modern people, living in a secular world, have lost the sense to understand themselves.”
And that is where the journey of this book begins.
In an age filled with anxiety, "The World Called Love" revives love as "the oldest philosophy for understanding humanity."
Love is no longer a matter of romance, but rather approaches us as a philosophical language that questions human dignity and the possibilities of the world.
“Love is not an emotion, but a reason that sustains existence.”
This one sentence is the most fundamental question and comfort this book offers to its readers.
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index
Introduction _ The oldest philosophy for understanding humanity
Chapter 1: An Age of Anxiety, Love Like Sand in Your Mouth
_A world that lost love
People who torment themselves using love as an excuse
Dating and marriage that started with cost-effectiveness in mind
What it means to say 'I need you'
Why fish for love?
I lost love because of this
Philosophers' Love Lesson 1
Chapter 2: Love as a Reason, Not an Emotion
_What is love
What is the difference between 'I love you' and 'I like you'?
In uncertain times, love is also uncertain.
What is 'pure love'?
The essence is not in receiving, but in giving.
Self-loathing only makes you dig a hole
It gradually changes and deepens
The love that Jesus truly wanted
Why Buddha Said Being Alive Is a Blissful Life
Philosophers' Love Lesson 2
Chapter 3: Why We Need to Connect with Others and the World
_Why do we need love now?
Rediscover your true self through genuine experiences
For a day of immersion, not a day of having to get things done
Experience the essence of life
It allows us to see the uncertain world with a broader perspective.
You gain the power to distinguish people.
I can judge what condition I am in
To live a life without lies
Philosophers' Love Lesson 3
Chapter 4: In Search of Lost Old Senses
_Philosophy for understanding humanity
Why was the Happy Prince happy?
This is what is essential for happiness
Restoring the joy of the mind and body
How to distinguish between true love and fake love
How Love Changes Us
Don't tell everyone you love everything
From self-centered to other-centered
A world unswayed by anyone
Philosophers' Love Lesson 4
Chapter 5: Understanding Love, People, and Life
_The way to find love again
Love them as they are
Be purely immersed in the other person
Let's seep into each other
When I love, the other person responds.
Philosophers' Love Lesson 5
Chapter 6: Practice Returning to the World of Love
_A happy life for all
Practice standing alone for someone
Focus on yourself
Love requires less courage than you think.
Give your heart without calculating
How to Accept Others in Solitude
Philosophers' Love Lesson 6
Outgoing Letter _ To those who are waiting for love
Chapter 1: An Age of Anxiety, Love Like Sand in Your Mouth
_A world that lost love
People who torment themselves using love as an excuse
Dating and marriage that started with cost-effectiveness in mind
What it means to say 'I need you'
Why fish for love?
I lost love because of this
Philosophers' Love Lesson 1
Chapter 2: Love as a Reason, Not an Emotion
_What is love
What is the difference between 'I love you' and 'I like you'?
In uncertain times, love is also uncertain.
What is 'pure love'?
The essence is not in receiving, but in giving.
Self-loathing only makes you dig a hole
It gradually changes and deepens
The love that Jesus truly wanted
Why Buddha Said Being Alive Is a Blissful Life
Philosophers' Love Lesson 2
Chapter 3: Why We Need to Connect with Others and the World
_Why do we need love now?
Rediscover your true self through genuine experiences
For a day of immersion, not a day of having to get things done
Experience the essence of life
It allows us to see the uncertain world with a broader perspective.
You gain the power to distinguish people.
I can judge what condition I am in
To live a life without lies
Philosophers' Love Lesson 3
Chapter 4: In Search of Lost Old Senses
_Philosophy for understanding humanity
Why was the Happy Prince happy?
This is what is essential for happiness
Restoring the joy of the mind and body
How to distinguish between true love and fake love
How Love Changes Us
Don't tell everyone you love everything
From self-centered to other-centered
A world unswayed by anyone
Philosophers' Love Lesson 4
Chapter 5: Understanding Love, People, and Life
_The way to find love again
Love them as they are
Be purely immersed in the other person
Let's seep into each other
When I love, the other person responds.
Philosophers' Love Lesson 5
Chapter 6: Practice Returning to the World of Love
_A happy life for all
Practice standing alone for someone
Focus on yourself
Love requires less courage than you think.
Give your heart without calculating
How to Accept Others in Solitude
Philosophers' Love Lesson 6
Outgoing Letter _ To those who are waiting for love
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Into the book
Expressions like 'cool, beautiful, sexy, cute' are not simple descriptions, but rather language that evaluates the appearance of an object.
It's no different than evaluating clothes or cars.
In that sense, others naturally become ‘objects of acquisition.’
So, we use expressions like ‘caught’ and ‘got’ without hesitation.
The term 'street hunting' is no different from the act of randomly catching fish in an aquarium.
--- p.31
Why do we feel affection for some people and not others? The reason has to do with the memories we leave behind from our lived experiences and the experiences we accumulate within them.
The feeling of liking doesn't just arise spontaneously toward someone you see in front of you, but is a reaction that sprouts based on the experiences and memories you've accumulated throughout your life.
So, I naturally like people who I can comfortably accept, and I don't like people who I can't.
--- p.50
Love exists in every little moment of our daily lives.
Eating food is an act of love for my body, and washing my body and putting on clean clothes is also an act of love.
Even the moment of sitting in the shade and catching one's breath in the heat is love.
Any action I take to keep my body safe is a way of loving myself.
--- p.62
If it's a love that moves my heart, a change will occur within me.
When you look at the world with such a changed inner self, everything comes across as new.
At that very moment, an ordinary day becomes an experience with special meaning.
--- p.94
How can we experience more authentic and genuine experiences than we do now? It's a matter of changing our attitude.
This is the fastest and surest way.
The key to that change is one thing: an attitude of not mixing in lies.
--- p.100
‘Attention’, ‘concern’, ‘observation’, ‘recognition’, ‘acceptance’, ‘affirmation’, ‘ownership’, and ‘integration’ are different faces of love.
These are attitudes that naturally emerge when we open our hearts to the world.
The essence of love is the same.
However, the moment worldly standards and desires such as appearance, status, and profit and loss become entangled in love, the purity of love decreases.
Conversely, the fewer conditions you demand from your partner, the more pure your love becomes.
--- p.117
Love that continues after death does not stay with just one person.
It extends to love for all humanity and, further, to all beings.
If we have this kind of love in our hearts, we will rediscover the intimacy we felt for the one we longed for, even with other people and animals.
This is what is called eternal 'friendship', eternal 'love' (philia in ancient Greek).
It's no different than evaluating clothes or cars.
In that sense, others naturally become ‘objects of acquisition.’
So, we use expressions like ‘caught’ and ‘got’ without hesitation.
The term 'street hunting' is no different from the act of randomly catching fish in an aquarium.
--- p.31
Why do we feel affection for some people and not others? The reason has to do with the memories we leave behind from our lived experiences and the experiences we accumulate within them.
The feeling of liking doesn't just arise spontaneously toward someone you see in front of you, but is a reaction that sprouts based on the experiences and memories you've accumulated throughout your life.
So, I naturally like people who I can comfortably accept, and I don't like people who I can't.
--- p.50
Love exists in every little moment of our daily lives.
Eating food is an act of love for my body, and washing my body and putting on clean clothes is also an act of love.
Even the moment of sitting in the shade and catching one's breath in the heat is love.
Any action I take to keep my body safe is a way of loving myself.
--- p.62
If it's a love that moves my heart, a change will occur within me.
When you look at the world with such a changed inner self, everything comes across as new.
At that very moment, an ordinary day becomes an experience with special meaning.
--- p.94
How can we experience more authentic and genuine experiences than we do now? It's a matter of changing our attitude.
This is the fastest and surest way.
The key to that change is one thing: an attitude of not mixing in lies.
--- p.100
‘Attention’, ‘concern’, ‘observation’, ‘recognition’, ‘acceptance’, ‘affirmation’, ‘ownership’, and ‘integration’ are different faces of love.
These are attitudes that naturally emerge when we open our hearts to the world.
The essence of love is the same.
However, the moment worldly standards and desires such as appearance, status, and profit and loss become entangled in love, the purity of love decreases.
Conversely, the fewer conditions you demand from your partner, the more pure your love becomes.
--- p.117
Love that continues after death does not stay with just one person.
It extends to love for all humanity and, further, to all beings.
If we have this kind of love in our hearts, we will rediscover the intimacy we felt for the one we longed for, even with other people and animals.
This is what is called eternal 'friendship', eternal 'love' (philia in ancient Greek).
--- p.153
Publisher's Review
“Love is not an emotion, but another way of perceiving the world.”
A philosopher's theory of love that looks at people and existence in a new way
What does the great philosopher, who captivated the world with the two-million-copy bestseller "The First Translation of Nietzsche's Words," think about "love"? He poses this question to us.
Do we know what love is? What is love? What does it mean to love? What changes when we love? He says.
If we can talk about this, we can fully embrace even the painful life and move forward.
The only thing we need now to fill our lives with happiness is love.
Haruhiko Shiratori, in this book, gives insight that “without love, we cannot fully understand the world,” and that only through love can we understand ourselves and others and begin to truly grow.
In this secular world, it is said that if we do not truly understand love, we cannot truly understand life and achieve true growth.
He follows the traces of ancient thought, including Nietzsche, Goethe, and the Bible, and presents love not as a simple emotion, but as an attitude toward life that we must live now, and as a starting point for philosophical reflection.
Redefining Love
Love is not an emotion, but an attitude of being.
The author interprets love not as a simple emotion or a name for a relationship, but as an 'attitude toward existence', that is, a perspective from which to view the world and oneself.
The core message of this book is to view love beyond the realm of emotion, as a way of being that allows humans to understand the world and connect with others.
"The World of Love" examines how the concept of love has evolved from ancient philosophy to modern philosophy.
Building on this philosophical tradition, the author defines love as 'the oldest human language for understanding the world.'
The author emphasizes that in an age of anxiety and disconnection, love is no longer a matter of romantic feelings, but must be re-examined as a "philosophical problem of understanding humanity."
In an age of anxiety,
Philosophy speaks of love again
We talk about love too easily.
In expressions like 'pretty', 'cool', and 'cute', love becomes a language of evaluation, and others become objects of competition.
In this sense, others become 'objects of acquisition', and relationships are reduced to the realm of competition and possession.
This book questions whether this distorted sense of love is really okay.
In this age where people say, "Love is expensive," "Love is a useless emotion," and "Love is gone," this book offers a quiet but solid message to those who have lost love and to all those who still want to believe in love.
The expansion of love, the completion of love
Beyond one person to all beings
To have a more authentic experience than you have now, you need to change your attitude.
The only sure way is to have an attitude that does not mix in lies.
Love is ultimately a true attitude toward oneself and the world.
When that attitude changes, your sense of seeing the world changes.
Love is no exception.
When appearance, status, and interests become entangled, the purity of love decreases, and the more conditions are removed, the deeper the love becomes.
Love is not a special event, it is an everyday attitude.
Love is not grandiose.
Love is present in every moment I take care of my body, respect my mind, and accept others as they are.
When that attitude builds up, ordinary daily life turns into a special experience.
We fall in love again
Why you should learn
Love is the power that makes us perceive the world in a new way.
This book does not romanticize love.
Instead, it suggests a way to understand others and experience the world through love.
Love is the language that connects me to the world, and the moment I lose that language, I lose my own world.
"The World Called Love" is a philosophical essay that ponders the essence of love and restores a sense of life.
By looking at love not as a romantic but as a practical attitude toward life and a language of perception, we revive the depth of life that we had forgotten.
“Love is the power that makes us perceive the world in a new way.”
This book slowly leads you into that world of love.
A philosopher's theory of love that looks at people and existence in a new way
What does the great philosopher, who captivated the world with the two-million-copy bestseller "The First Translation of Nietzsche's Words," think about "love"? He poses this question to us.
Do we know what love is? What is love? What does it mean to love? What changes when we love? He says.
If we can talk about this, we can fully embrace even the painful life and move forward.
The only thing we need now to fill our lives with happiness is love.
Haruhiko Shiratori, in this book, gives insight that “without love, we cannot fully understand the world,” and that only through love can we understand ourselves and others and begin to truly grow.
In this secular world, it is said that if we do not truly understand love, we cannot truly understand life and achieve true growth.
He follows the traces of ancient thought, including Nietzsche, Goethe, and the Bible, and presents love not as a simple emotion, but as an attitude toward life that we must live now, and as a starting point for philosophical reflection.
Redefining Love
Love is not an emotion, but an attitude of being.
The author interprets love not as a simple emotion or a name for a relationship, but as an 'attitude toward existence', that is, a perspective from which to view the world and oneself.
The core message of this book is to view love beyond the realm of emotion, as a way of being that allows humans to understand the world and connect with others.
"The World of Love" examines how the concept of love has evolved from ancient philosophy to modern philosophy.
Building on this philosophical tradition, the author defines love as 'the oldest human language for understanding the world.'
The author emphasizes that in an age of anxiety and disconnection, love is no longer a matter of romantic feelings, but must be re-examined as a "philosophical problem of understanding humanity."
In an age of anxiety,
Philosophy speaks of love again
We talk about love too easily.
In expressions like 'pretty', 'cool', and 'cute', love becomes a language of evaluation, and others become objects of competition.
In this sense, others become 'objects of acquisition', and relationships are reduced to the realm of competition and possession.
This book questions whether this distorted sense of love is really okay.
In this age where people say, "Love is expensive," "Love is a useless emotion," and "Love is gone," this book offers a quiet but solid message to those who have lost love and to all those who still want to believe in love.
The expansion of love, the completion of love
Beyond one person to all beings
To have a more authentic experience than you have now, you need to change your attitude.
The only sure way is to have an attitude that does not mix in lies.
Love is ultimately a true attitude toward oneself and the world.
When that attitude changes, your sense of seeing the world changes.
Love is no exception.
When appearance, status, and interests become entangled, the purity of love decreases, and the more conditions are removed, the deeper the love becomes.
Love is not a special event, it is an everyday attitude.
Love is not grandiose.
Love is present in every moment I take care of my body, respect my mind, and accept others as they are.
When that attitude builds up, ordinary daily life turns into a special experience.
We fall in love again
Why you should learn
Love is the power that makes us perceive the world in a new way.
This book does not romanticize love.
Instead, it suggests a way to understand others and experience the world through love.
Love is the language that connects me to the world, and the moment I lose that language, I lose my own world.
"The World Called Love" is a philosophical essay that ponders the essence of love and restores a sense of life.
By looking at love not as a romantic but as a practical attitude toward life and a language of perception, we revive the depth of life that we had forgotten.
“Love is the power that makes us perceive the world in a new way.”
This book slowly leads you into that world of love.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: November 14, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 240 pages | 142*210*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791194720041
- ISBN10: 1194720048
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