Jollimore Love's Vision

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3867-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon--an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato's Symposium, love is "something in between."

Jollimore makes his case by proposing a "vision" view of love, according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves bestowing charitable attention on a loved one. This view recognizes the truth in the cliché "love is blind," but holds that love's blindness does not undermine the idea that love is guided by reason. Reasons play an important role in love even if they rest on facts that are not themselves rationally justifiable.

Filled with illuminating examples from literature, Love's Vision is an original examination of a subject of vital philosophical and human concern.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jollimore, Troy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xix

Chapter One: "Something In Between": On the Nature of Love 1

Chapter Two: Love's Blindness (1): Love's Closed Heart 28

Chapter Three: Love's Blindness (2): Love's Friendly Eye 46

Chapter Four: Beyond Comparison 74

Chapter Five: Commitments, Values, and Frameworks 95

Chapter Six: Valuing Persons 123

Chapter Seven: Love and Morality 146

Afterword: Between the Universal and the Particular 169

Notes 173

References 189

Index 195

Über Autor(innen)

Troy Jollimore is associate professor of philosophy at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality. He is also the author of two books of poems, At Lake Scugog (Princeton) and Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.