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Apr 8, 2005 · Love. First published Fri Apr 8, 2005; substantive revision Wed Sep 1, 2021. 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. For example, the way in which I love my wife is seemingly very different ...
Jun 26, 2021 · Love is everywhere: Love of family, friends, significant others, objects, the list goes on. This article will look at three major works on the philosophy of love. Love is a pervasive phenomenon in all human life and comes in many forms: love of people, animals, objects, ideas, and more. The philosophy of love seeks to explain and rationalize ...
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Oct 8, 2014 · Modern philosophers have proposed four different, though perhaps partially overlapping, conceptions of love that are significantly distinct from those of the ancients: (1) love as an emotion, (2) love as a ‘robust concern,’ (3) love as a union, and (4) love as valuing the other. Let us start with the idea of robust concern.
Nov 14, 2020 · Sternberg’s triangle. Sternberg thinks that we can best describe love as composed of three “primary” components that combine to produce all the kinds of love that we observe around us: intimacy, passion and decision or commitment. These can be combined to produce the “mixed” forms: companionate love (intimacy and commitment), romantic ...
Love is a long-term state of Being involving the emotions and the intellect which is characterized by existing in relation to an Other. Emotions, although not all of love, form a major part of this state. Obviously, positive feelings must exist, but they are of a different calibre than more common positive emotions.
Feb 6, 2017 · Many philosophers think otherwise. Some deny that there are reasons for love and that love is ever justified or unjustified. 1 This is known as the “no-reasons” view. Others grant that there are reasons for love—the “reasons view”—but deny the so-called “qualities view,” according to which people’s good qualities provide such ...
Nonetheless, romantic love has many facets and phases. Among these are: falling in love, infatuation, unreciprocated love, erotic love, love within a long-term relationship, falling out of love, unrequited love, and bereavement. They may not all have the same one thing in common, and so might best be grouped together in terms of Wittgenstein ...
