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  1. 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.

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      Like most other ancient philosophers, Plato maintains a...

  2. Thomas Aquinas on Marriage, Fruitfulness, and Faithful Love. J. Budziszewski. In this essay, I wish to present Thomas Aquinas’s teachings about love and matrimony as a background for the teachings of Humanae vitae.

  3. It’s reasonable to think that the kind of love Carver wanted out of life, and the love we want out of marriage, is the love of true friendship. We feel ourselves beloved when we know that our friend sees us for who we really are and loves what he sees. Aristotle has some important insights about how such friendship can occur.

  4. Mar 7, 2019 · What we can see in Kierkegaard’s earlier writings is that marriage is an ethical relationship first and foremost, that takes the passion of love and adds personal commitment as a duty, expressed communally.

  5. Philosophers can debate the nature of “self-love” implied in this—from the Aristotelian notion that self-love is necessary for any kind of interpersonal love, to the condemnation of egoism and the impoverished examples that pride and self-glorification from which to base one’s love of another.

  6. In a brilliant and provocative article, the philosopher David Velleman surveys what analytic philosophers have had to say about love, concluding that they, like Freud, tend to conceive of love as having a characteristic aim or aims.

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  8. 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.

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