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Love and Its Objects - What Can We Care For?

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Informationen zum Autor Kate Abramson, Indiana University, USA Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, University of Haifa, IsraelJan Bransen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Elizabeth Drummond Young, University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Gustafsson works at the intersections of philosophy, theology and the artsTomá Hejduk, University of Pardubice, Czech RepublicMagdalena Hoffmann, University of Bern, SwitzerlandAngelika Krebs, University of Basel, Switzerland Michael Kühler, Münster University, GermanyAdam Leite, Indiana University, USA Katrien Schaubroeck, University of Antwerp, BelgiumAaron Smuts, Rhode Island College, USA Klappentext This collection of essays on the philosophy of love, by leading contributors to the discussion, places particular emphasis on the relation between love, its character and appropriateness and the objects towards which it is directed: romantic and erotic partners, persons, ourselves, strangers, non-human animals and art. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays on the philosophy of love! by leading contributors to the discussion! places particular emphasis on the relation between love! its character and appropriateness and the objects towards which it is directed: romantic and erotic partners! persons! ourselves! strangers! non-human animals and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction; Christian Maurer, Tony Milligan and Kamila Pacovská PART I: ROMANTIC AND EROTIC LOVE 1. Dialogical Love; Angelika Krebs 2. Ain't Love Nothing but Sex Misspelled? The Role of Sex in Romantic Love; Aaron Ben-Ze'ev 3. Loving Persons: Activity and Passivity in Romantic Relationships; Michael Kühler 4. What did Socrates Love?; Tomáš Hejduk PART II: THE APPROPRIATE BELOVED 5. Self-hatred, Self-love and Value; Kate Abramson & Adam Leite 6. Is it Better to Love Better Things?; Aaron Smuts 7. Loving the Lovable; Katrien Schaubroeck 8. Loving Villains: Virtue in Response to Wrongdoing; Kamila Pacovská PART III: STRANGERS 9. Loving a Stranger; Jan Bransen 10. On 'Love at First Sight'; Christian Maurer PART IV: HUMANS AND PERSONS 11. Persons as Irreplaceable; Elizabeth Drummond Young 12. What Relationship Structure Tells Us about Love; Magdalena Hoffmann PART V: THE NON-HUMAN 13. Animals and the Capacity for Love; Tony Milligan 14. The Love of Art: Art, Oikophilia, and Philokalia; Daniel Gustafsson Index...

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Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction; Christian Maurer, Tony Milligan and Kamila Pacovská PART I: ROMANTIC AND EROTIC LOVE 1. Dialogical Love; Angelika Krebs 2. Ain't Love Nothing but Sex Misspelled? The Role of Sex in Romantic Love; Aaron Ben-Ze'ev 3. Loving Persons: Activity and Passivity in Romantic Relationships; Michael Kühler 4. What did Socrates Love?; Tomás Hejduk PART II: THE APPROPRIATE BELOVED 5. Self-hatred, Self-love and Value; Kate Abramson & Adam Leite 6. Is it Better to Love Better Things?; Aaron Smuts 7. Loving the Lovable; Katrien Schaubroeck 8. Loving Villains: Virtue in Response to Wrongdoing; Kamila Pacovská PART III: STRANGERS 9. Loving a Stranger; Jan Bransen 10. On 'Love at First Sight'; Christian Maurer PART IV: HUMANS AND PERSONS 11. Persons as Irreplaceable; Elizabeth Drummond Young 12. What Relationship Structure Tells Us about Love; Magdalena Hoffmann PART V: THE NON-HUMAN 13. Animals and the Capacity for Love; Tony Milligan 14. The Love of Art: Art, Oikophilia, and Philokalia; Daniel Gustafsson Index

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Authors Christian Milligan Maurer
Assisted by C. Maurer (Editor), Christian Maurer (Editor), Milligan (Editor), T Milligan (Editor), T. Milligan (Editor), Tony Milligan (Editor), K. Pacovska (Editor), Kamila Pacovska (Editor), K Pacovská (Editor), K. Pacovská (Editor)
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 25.09.2014
 
EAN 9781137383303
ISBN 978-1-137-38330-3
No. of pages 255
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous

B, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Moral Philosophy

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