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Jul 26, 2021 · That difficult, delicate, triumphal pivot from self-limitation to self-liberation in the most vulnerable-making of human undertakings — love — is what poet and philosopher David Whyte, who thinks deeply about these questions of courage and love, maps out in his stunning poem “The Truelove,” found in his book The Sea in You: Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love (public library ...
- Love and Morality
- Love Is Blind
- Love and Reason
- Vision View of Love
- The Beloved’S Perspective
- Morality in Love
He first looks at the concept of love and morality. Jollimore argues that reason guides love but, at the same time, not entirely. To illuminate this point, he asks if love is moral. He points to the idealistic notion that lovers want each other to flourish. Thus they treat them better than anyone else in their lives. In contrast, he points out that...
He then looks to the concept “love is blind” and believes this is flawed. Two notions of love guide Jollimore’s vision view of love. First, to love another person is to place them at the center of your world, such as the earth that revolves around the sun. Second, love illuminates things that we were blind to before, and we perceive the world in th...
Finally, he looks to the idea that reason does not guide love. Jollimore thinks that the (hyper) rationalistviewpoint of the philosophy of love is flawed. The rationalist view being that love is not a condition or matter of reason or rationality in any sense; any list of properties in the beloved will not obligate the lover to love them. But he doe...
Love as a vision means love is largely attention directed towards the positive qualities of the beloved. Because of this, the lover is often blind to negative attributes. Love leads us to create and hold false beliefs about the beloved; the lover finds value in the beloved’s subjective qualities and has true in their heart that these are objective ...
Love is a response to the beloved’s universal properties and a response to non-universal properties in the beloved. Human natureallows and forces us to value things from a non-neutral standpoint, a place where detachment and objective standards are forbidden. The lover doesn’t assess these non-universal properties of the beloved but instead identif...
For the philosopher Jollimore, love is moral because it in nature causes the lover to overcome “the partiality to self,” and the partiality to self is a powerful and often destructive motivator of human behavior. The love and recognition for the individual cause the lover to provide a generous amount of attention to the beloved, which involves trus...
Love: Emotion, Myth, and Metaphor and About Love: Reinventing Romance for our Times, both by Robert Solomon. The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Robert Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins. Also, Solomon speaks on love at some point in about any book about “the passions” or emotions. 1.
Dec 30, 2004 · Kindle $13.77. This beautifully written book by one of the world's leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love.Harry Frankfurt writes that it is through ...
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Dec 1, 2021 · Let’s start with Jean-Paul Sartre, probably the most well-known philosopher in the school of existentialism: “That is the essence of the joy of love, when it exists: we feel justified to exist ...
Mar 8, 2021 · This article analyses the experience of absurdity in love. Absurdity clears away the social, cultural, and philosophical ideals of love to focus on the actual experience of love. With this in mind, a positive account of Camus’ philosophy of love is developed from several different works.
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Jul 13, 2020 · Like its predecessor Love: A History (Yale University Press, 2011), Simon May's Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion is a bold and ambitious book, as suggested by its subtitle. There are a number of interesting and provocative claims advanced throughout the book, some of which one might disagree with, but are eminently worth engaging.
