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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.
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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Feb 6, 2017 · I focus on three key themes in that text: the relationship between Kjerlighed (Kierkegaard’s main term for love) and its preferential varieties such as “erotic love” (Elskov) and friendship; how Kierkegaard’s is a “vision” view of love, requiring—contrary to what is often assumed—attention to the particular individual; and ...
In order to ensure that an ideal that results from internalizing loved others motivates us to act not just any old how but in line with the requirements of practical rationality, Kantianly conceived, Velleman presents a strongly moralized conception of love: love (more precisely, love of persons) is, Velleman argues, a response to the very same ...
Plato, Socrates, and Love. Iakovos Vasiliou. 2019, Christopher Grau and Aaron Smuts (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Love, OUP. Given the prodigious amount of scholarship on Platonic love, this article explores a different question: the nature of Plato's love for Socrates as expressed in two dialogues, the Symposium and Phaedo, in which Plato ...
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Here, Aristotle’s conception of philia and to philein differs in an important respect from modern definitions of “love”. The second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary (1959), for example, defines “love” as “a feeling of strong personal attachment” and “ardent affection”.
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Jan 1, 2011 · Oord’s The Nature of Love concentrates primarily on conceptual and theological themes relating to the very nature of love itself and what influential theologians have had to say about...
