Stephen Post is Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine and Senior Research Scholar in the Becket Institute at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University. Dr. Post is the president of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, founded in 2001. He received his Ph.D. in ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School where he was an elected university fellow, a member of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, and a preceptor in the Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Post is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd edition (Macmillan Reference, 2004).
He is the author of more than 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals representing the sciences, religion, and humanities. These include Science, The International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, The Hasting Center Report, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Journal of Religion, The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Journal of Value Inquiry, The Journal of American Academy of Religion, The Journal of Religious Ethics, and Lancet, among others. Most recently he is author of Why Good Things Happen to Good People (Broadway Books, 2007). |
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It’s Good to be Good: How Benevolent Emotions and Actions Contribute to Health
The convergence of evidence is striking in support of the hypothesis that benevolent emotions, attitudes and actions centered on the good of others are contributory to happiness, health, and even longevity in the agent of such giving. Benevolence is chiefly about the well-being of recipients, but that said, it can be added that it nourishes the giver. The evidence that “doing unto others” is good for the giver has reached a high threshold.
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Research Notes: A Non-Dualistic Approach to Altruism and Egoism
Nondualism means that while commitments beyond self through altruistic behavior run counter to solipsism and "I-It" relations, they do not run counter to a fuller image of "I-Thou" relations in which one discovers that the only genuine alternative to despair, meaninglessness, and the "absurd" (as Camus described it) is other-regarding love. This is why the primary purpose of parenting, of education, and of life can only be the nurturance of the love of neighbor.
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Five Dimensions of Unlimited Love
...I will discuss the nature of love and unlimited love with respect to the five dimensions suggested by Sorokin - i.e., intensivity, extensivity, duration, purity, and adequacy.
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Unlimited Love and Ultimate Reality
Have I convinced those who reject the possibility of genuine unselfish love for anyone at all, let alone for all humanity?
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Progress Through Love
After several years of college teaching, I concluded that the ideal of love had to be integrated with solid science in order to convince students of the time-honored yet paradoxical truth that in the giving of self lies the discovery of self.
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Remembering the Spiritual History of American Philanthropy
Philanthropy is the joy of other-regarding service coupled with the moral alchemy of turning gold into something better.
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Unlimited Love - Towards a New Human Science
How can we better understand human loving motivations and actions, with a focus on all that these involve evolutionarily, genetically, developmentally, neurologically, socially, emotionally, theologically, and conceptually?
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Unlimited Love
UNLIMITED LOVE IS AN ABIDING AFFIRMATION OF THE VALUE AND EVEN SACREDNESS OF THE EXISTENCE OF ALL OTHERS, AND LEADS TO ATTENTIVE UNDERSTANDING, COMPASSION, CARE, COMMUNICATION, EMPOWERMENT, COMMUNION, AND FORGIVENESS. AT CORE, UNLIMITED LOVE IS AN AFFIRMATION THAT ACKNOWLDEGES FOR ALL OTHERS THEIR ABSOLUTELY FULL SIGNIFICANCE THAT, BECAUSE OF EGOISM, WE OTHERWISE ACKNOWLEDGE ONLY FOR OURSELVES. THIS MIGRATION AT THE CENTER OF OUR BEING TO ALL OTHERS IS THE CORE ELEMENT IN UNLIMITED LOVE.
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Love Thy Neighbor
The phenomenology of such love within the human context is the appropriate point of departure, coupled with social scientific research into the question of the reality and nature of such love, considered both quantitatively and qualitatively, is
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