Love and Its Objects [electronic resource] : What Can We Care For? /
Maurer, C.editor.
Milligan, T.editor.
Pacovská, K.editor.
This collection of essays on the philosophy of love, by leading contributors to the discussion, places particular emphasis on the relation between love, its character and appropriateness and the objects towards which it is directed: romantic and erotic partners, persons, ourselves, strangers, non-human animals and art.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Romantic and Erotic Love; 1 Between I and Thou - On the Dialogical Nature of Love; 2 Ain't Love Nothing but Sex Misspelled? The Role of Sex in Romantic Love; 3 Loving Persons: Activity and Passivity in Romantic Love; 4 What Did Socrates Love?; Part II The Appropriate Beloved; 5 Self-hatred, Self-love, and Value; 6 Is It Better to Love Better Things?; 7 Loving the Lovable; 8 Loving Villains: Virtue in Response to Wrongdoing; Part III Strangers; 9 Loving a Stranger
10 On 'Love at First Sight'Part IV Humans and Persons; 11 Love Reveals Persons as Irreplaceable; 12 What Relationship Structure Tells Us about Love; Part V The Nonhuman; 13 Animals and the Capacity for Love; 14 The Love of Art: Art, Oikophilia , and Philokalia; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This collection of essays on the philosophy of love, by leading contributors to the discussion, places particular emphasis on the relation between love, its character and appropriateness and the objects towards which it is directed: romantic and erotic partners, persons, ourselves, strangers, non-human animals and art.
Philosophy of mind.
Ethics.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Philosophy of Mind.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.