Editor’s preface
Editor’s preface

Summary/Abstract: The theme of the 12th volume of Cracow Indological Studies was formulated in such a way as to allow the notion of ‘love’ to retain its ambiguity, as well as to comprise the broadest spectrum of the phenomenon of love – from different kinds of human, personal love to the love of God. Love taken as the desire for experiencing the sense of fulfilment in life (puruṣārtha) can be taken both as the factor of transformation and integration of human personality and the factor establishing a specific and definite axiological order in one’s life. Ordo amoris – as understood by Max Scheler – is “an objective order of what is worthy of love in all things”; it structures the existential situation of a human, it allows him to transcend himself and to participate in the object of his love as an ens intentionale. It does so without love giving up its character of an emotion. Does love outlined in the above manner find its

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