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Aug 2, 2011 · Abstract. One variety of love is familiar in everyday life and qualifies in every reasonable sense as a reactive attitude. ‘Reactive love’ is paradigmatically (a) an affectionate attachment to another person, (b) appropriately felt as a non‐self‐interested response to particular kinds of morally laudable features of character expressed by the loved one in interaction with the lover ...
- Kate Abramson, Adam Leite
- 2011
In this article, I argue for the Intense Pro-Attitude Theory, specifically, that love is a disjunctive combination of intense affective, cognitive, intentional, and valuational pro-attitudes that focus on something’s well-being. If this account is correct, then love is empirically and conceptually independent of moral responsibility.
- Stephen Kershnar
- 2020
- Love Is a Commitment. Loving someone is a decision you make to be faithful to their heart. It’s not to be confused with infatuation. It’s physical when you meet a person and are attracted to them.
- It Remains Even in Bad Circumstances. If you’re in a romantic relationship, you can verify that it’s not always champagne and roses. There’ll be times when you’re so angry at each other that you want to walk away forever.
- You Pick Who Stays in Your Circle. There’s an old saying that you can’t pick your family but can select your friends. Unless you believe in predestination and reincarnation, you weren’t consulted about the family in which you were born.
- Love Is Often Altruistic. Consider the various emotions that you can share with another person. According to an article published by the University of California-Berkeley, researchers have identified at least 27 human emotions.
Apr 8, 2005 · The trouble with these accounts of love as an emotion proper is that they provide too thin a conception of love. In Hamlyn’s case, love is conceived as a fairly generic pro-attitude, rather than as the specific kind of distinctively personal attitude discussed here. In Brown’s case, spelling out the formal object of love as simply being ...
In this article, I argue for the Intense Pro-Attitude Theory, specifically, that love is a disjunctive combination of intense affective, cognitive, intentional, and valuational pro-attitudes that focus on something’s well-being. If this account is correct, then love is empirically and conceptually independent of moral responsibility.
- Stephen Kershnar
- 2020
1. Introduction. While much has been written on love, the question of how romantic love difers from friendship love has rarely been explored.1 This chapter focuses on shedding some light on this question. I begin by considering a class of views that analyze love in terms of pro- attitudes, such as desires for intimacy with the beloved, desires ...
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construing love broadly so as to include, romantic love, filial love, love between friends, etc., but I. will follow the literature in referring to the object of one’s love as “the beloved” regardless of the. kind of love in question. I will refer to “loving attitudes” as a proxy for whatever set of positive.
