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Apr 8, 2005 · Love. This essay focuses on personal love, or the love of particular persons as such. Part of the philosophical task in understanding personal love is to distinguish the various kinds of personal love.
(CSMN). Her main research interests are the philosophy of love (and more generally the philosophy of emotions), normativity and the nature of reasons, rationality (and its relation to irrationality), phi-losophy of science, and feminism. In her dissertation What Is Love? (2016) she defends the claim that love is a moral emotion, as well as
Ferry argues that in their place, love is the only ideal that has transformed human lives in significant and unrecognisable ways, by permeating both the private and public spheres. He holds that love has become the central value in society, the new principle of meaning and the good life.
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In this paper, I will first examine the natures of “love as feeling” and “love as. intention,” using examples drawn from literature, film, essays, and philosophical ideologies. will then examine the two most intriguing views on the relationship between “love as feeling”. and “love as intention.”.
Harry Frankfurt, The Reasons of Love (Princeton, 2004) Review by Richard Moran. The Reasons of Love is based on Harry Frankfurt’s Romanell – Phi Beta Kappa Lectures of 2000. The book, while brief, provides a kind of summa – a late grand synthesis – of Frankfurtiana.
In this course, we will challenge this view by adopting a different starting point. Through a survey of the Western philosophical tradition, we will explore the possibility that, far from being beyond intelligibility, love (and sex) can be understood and that an ‘art of love’ can be cultivated.
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Feb 6, 2017 · It is a familiar thought that in friendship and romance, people’s good qualities are reasons for loving them. This chapter clarifies the kinds of reasons—and the forms of reasons-responsiveness and evaluation—at issue. It offers a new model for understanding love as a form of valuing.
