The Art of Loving
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The Art of Loving is a seminal 1956 psychological and philosophical book by Erich Fromm that explores love as a skill and active practice rather than a passive emotion.
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| The Art of Loving canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8057284 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Art of Loving Context triple: [Erich Fromm, notableWork, The Art of Loving]
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A.
The Courage to Love
The Courage to Love is a collection of sermons and reflections by American clergyman and social activist William Sloane Coffin that explores faith, justice, and moral responsibility in public life.
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B.
The Four Loves
The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis that explores and contrasts four distinct types of human love—affection, friendship, eros, and charity—from a Christian philosophical perspective.
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C.
The Ways of Love
"The Ways of Love" is a song by Neil Young featured on his 1989 album *Freedom*, reflecting his characteristic blend of introspective lyrics and melodic rock.
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Contemplation to Attain Love
Contemplation to Attain Love is a concluding meditation in Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises that invites the practitioner to recognize and respond to God’s loving presence in all things.
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E.
The Joy of Love
The Joy of Love is Pope Francis’s 2016 apostolic exhortation on love, marriage, and family life in the contemporary world.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Art of Loving Target entity description: The Art of Loving is a seminal 1956 psychological and philosophical book by Erich Fromm that explores love as a skill and active practice rather than a passive emotion.
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A.
The Courage to Love
The Courage to Love is a collection of sermons and reflections by American clergyman and social activist William Sloane Coffin that explores faith, justice, and moral responsibility in public life.
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B.
The Four Loves
The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis that explores and contrasts four distinct types of human love—affection, friendship, eros, and charity—from a Christian philosophical perspective.
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C.
The Ways of Love
"The Ways of Love" is a song by Neil Young featured on his 1989 album *Freedom*, reflecting his characteristic blend of introspective lyrics and melodic rock.
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D.
Contemplation to Attain Love
Contemplation to Attain Love is a concluding meditation in Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises that invites the practitioner to recognize and respond to God’s loving presence in all things.
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E.
The Joy of Love
The Joy of Love is Pope Francis’s 2016 apostolic exhortation on love, marriage, and family life in the contemporary world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophy book ⓘ psychology book ⓘ |
| argues |
love is not primarily a passive emotion
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love requires concentration ⓘ love requires discipline ⓘ love requires patience ⓘ love requires supreme concern ⓘ |
| author | Erich Fromm ⓘ |
| centralThesis |
love is an active concern for the life and growth of the beloved
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love is an art that requires knowledge and effort ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| critiques |
commodification of love
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consumerism in relationships ⓘ modern capitalist society ⓘ |
| explores |
brotherly love
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erotic love ⓘ human relationships ⓘ love as a skill ⓘ love as an active practice ⓘ love as an art ⓘ love of God ⓘ motherly love ⓘ nature of love ⓘ self-love ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophy
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psychology ⓘ social psychology ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapter Love and Its Disintegration in Contemporary Western Society
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chapter The Practice of Love ⓘ chapter The Theory of Love ⓘ |
| impact |
popularized humanistic concept of love
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widely read in psychology and philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Jewish ethical thought
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Karl Marx ⓘ Sigmund Freud ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
love as a productive orientation
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love as an answer to the problem of human existence ⓘ mature love as union with integrity preserved ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| publisher | Harper & Brothers ⓘ |
| theoreticalBasis |
Marxist humanism
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existentialism ⓘ humanistic psychoanalysis ⓘ |
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Subject: The Art of Loving Description of subject: The Art of Loving is a seminal 1956 psychological and philosophical book by Erich Fromm that explores love as a skill and active practice rather than a passive emotion.
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