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I suppose all of us know from experience or from psychological analysis the meaning of longing, understood as a passionate desire to attain something one does not have or misses. We also know of the impulse to reduce longing to sexual desire (as in the psychoanalysis of Freud) or to the will to dominate and rule (as in the philosophy of Nietzsche). Such urges especially devalue the longing I would like to discuss here, that is, metaphysical longing. What I call “metaphysical” longing is also known under different, sometimes less obvious names, such as the longing for happiness, being, Infinity, Beauty, Good, or finally, for God.
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Tarnowski, K. (2002). Metaphysical Longing. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Creative Matrix of the Origins. Analecta Husserliana, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0538-8_19
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