The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of
Contents
Notes on
Contributors
Introduction
	Diotima’s Ascent
	Is Carnal Love an Obstacle to the Achievement of Virtue?
	Is Partial, Attached Love in Tension with Obligations of Impartiality?
	Does Love Perceive Value?
	Could Love Be the Keystone of Moral Theory or Practice?
	Conclusion
Part I:
Family and Friendship
	Chapter 1:
Love and Friendship
		I T he Best of Friends
		II False Belief and Love
		III T he Opacity of Persons and the Risks of Friendship
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Early Relationships, Pathologies of Attachment, and the Capacity to Love
		Attachment in Infancy and Adult Romantic Partnerships
		Attachment and Love: Important Differences
		Security and Agency: A Role for Attachment in Love
		Attachment and the Capacity to Love
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: “Mama, Do You Love Me?” A Defense of Unloving Parents
		The Many Faces of Love
		Unloving Parents Are Not Psychologically Abnormal
			Unloving Father
			Unloving Mother 1
			Unloving Mother 2
			Unloving Mother 3
		Unloving Parents Are Not Always Moral Monsters
			Unloving Mother 4
			Unloving Mother 5
		Reasons for Loving or Not Loving One’s Children
		Conclusion: On Loving Less or Badly
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: Loving and (or?) Choosing Our Children: Disability, Unconditional Parental Love, and Prenatal Selection
		Introduction
		Prenatal Selection as a Failure to Love the Embryo
		Prenatal Selection as a Failure to Love the Born Child
		Prenatal Selection as a Failure to Love Other Children
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II:
Romance and Sex
	Chapter 5:
Love, Romance, and Sex
		Love and Sex: What’s the Connection?
		Romantic Commitments and Lovers’ Anxieties
		The Future of Love
		Notes
	Chapter 6: All Hearts In Love Use Their Own Tongues: Concepts, Verbal Disputes, and Disagreeing About Love
		Introduction
		Disputing Love
		Operative and Manifest Concepts; Conceptual and Ameliorative Analyses
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: The Normative Potency of Sexually Exclusive Love
		The Puzzle of Committed Sexual Exclusivity
		First Purported Solution: Sexual Exclusivity Has Instrumental Value
		Second Purported Solution: Sexual Exclusivity and Inclinations
		Third Purported Solution: Sexual Exclusivity as Valuable for Its Own Sake
		A Successful Solution: The Value of Sexually Exclusive Love as Sui Generis
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8:
Queer Bodies and Queer Love
		The Queer Body
		Queer Shame and Self-Loveas Therapy
		Platonic Love and the Myth of the Other Half
		Sex and Personhood
		Fetishism and the Dangers of Depersonalization
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
		Church Documents
		Videos and Films
	Chapter 9:
Plato on Love and Sex
		Two Kinds of Love; Three Kinds of Lovers
		The Sex Question
		Conclusion: Are Platonic Lovers Just Friends?
		Notes
		References
		Further Reading
	Chapter 10: Eros and Agape in Interpersonal Relationships: Plato, Emerson, and Peirce
		Eros as Desiring-Lovein Plato’s Symposium
		Emerson’s Romantic Love
		Peirce’s Agape
		Notes
		References
		Further Reading
	Chapter 11: Threats, Warnings, and Relationship Ultimatums
		References
Part III:
Politics and Society
	Chapter 12: Love and Marriage
		Introduction
		The Modern Marriage Contract and the Emergence of Marital Love
		Early Critiques of Marriage: Wollstonecraft, Fuller, and Mill
		Early Twentieth-Century Radicalism: Goldman and Russell
		Strong Skepticism about Love: de Beauvoir, Firestone, Kipnis
		Concluding Remarks: Reclaiming Love and Rethinking Marriage
		References
	Chapter 13: Love, anger, and racial injustice
		Agape Love
		Moral Anger
		The Compatibility Argument
		Moral Anger as an Expression of Agape Love
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14: Love and Political Reconciliation
		Introduction
		Reconciliation
		Political Reconciliation
		Love
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 15: The Morning Stars Will Sing Together: Compassion, Nonviolence, and the Revolution of the Heart
		I. Reasonableness, Responsiveness, Asymmetry
		II. The Journey of Conviction
		III. Life as Sacred and as Gift
		IV. Nonviolence and Memory
		References
Part IV: Animals, Nature, and the Environment
	Chapter 16: Love and animals:
Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch and Attention as Love
		Introduction
		Love as Attention
		Un-Selfing
		Human Humility
		Letting Go
		Conclusion: Animal Ethics, Difference and Holism
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 17:
On the Love of Nature
		Introduction
		Love, Otherness, and the Apprehension of Reality
		Thoreau, the Loving Naturalist
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 18: Caring to be Green: The Importance of Love for Environmental Integrity
		What Does It Mean to “Love”?
		What Does It Mean to Be “Green”?
		What Happens to Life Without Love?
		Why Is Love Necessary to Protect Life?
		What Would It Mean to Cultivate Human Love for the Web of Life? Can It Be Done?
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part V:
Art, Faith, and Meaning
	Chapter 19: Love and Beauty in Eighteenth-century Aesthetics
		Love and Beauty
		Disinterested Beauty
		Beauty, Love, and Lust
		Mixed Sentiments
		Postscript: Since the Eighteenth Century
		Notes
	Chapter 20:
Love Songs
		Acknowledgments
		References
	Chapter 21: How faith secures the morality of love
		Introduction
		Love as Emotional Caring
			The Nature of Love
			The Threats of Love
			Neighborly Love
		Faith, Existentially Understood
			Resignation
			Faith
			Two Kinds of Resignation
		Love and Faith
			Love in the Structure of Faith
			Love as Conditioned by Faith
		Acknowledgment
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 22: What Is this Thing Called Love?
		Love Is Not Love That Alters When It Alteration Finds
		How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
		Love, So Wrought, May Be Unwrought So
		Only God, My Dear, Could Love You for Yourself Alone
		For One Is Both and Both Are One in Love
		The Scent of Bitter Almonds
		References
Part VI:
Rationality and Morality
	Chapter 23:
Reasons for Love
		Understanding the Questions: Love and Reasons
			Love
			Reasons
		The No-Reasons-For-Love View
		The Rationalist View
			The Quality View
			The Relationship View
			The Hybrid View
		The Qualified Hybrid View
			A-Rational Love
			Rational Love
			Hybrid Love
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 24:
Reasons of love
		Introduction
		A Well-Known Problem for Consequentialism
		Love Versus Morality: Against the Overridingness Thesis
		Love Versus Morality: Morality Is Everywhere
		Beyond the Conflict
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 25:
Love and Agency
		I Love as an Active Verb
		II But I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You
		III Rejecting a Concatenation Approach
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 26: Love, Practical Reasons, and African Philosophy
		“One Thought Too Many”
		Western and African Ethical Theories
		African Ethics and the Conflict between Partiality and Impartiality
		The Common Good
		Communal Love and Individualistic Love
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 27: Love and Moral Structures:
How Love Can Reshape Ethical Theory
		How Love Can Shape Morality’s Meta-Theory
		Love as Key to Social and Political Theory: A Snapshot of Racism
		Some Relevant Texts
	Chapter 28: Moral Normativity and the Necessities of Love
		Prologue
		Goals
		Anti-Subjectivism
		Self-Defense
		Love
		Necessity
		Universality
		Rationality
		Realism
		Epilogue
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 29:
Love and Hatred
		Opposites
		Broad Notions of Love and Hatred
		Love and Hatred: Analogues
		The Normative Status of Love and Hatred
		Conceptions of a Good Human Life
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part VII: Traditions:
Historical and Contemporary
	Chapter 30: The Confucian and Daoist Traditions on Love
		Ren and Love in the Early Confucian Tradition
		The Mencian Conception of the Cognitive and Affective Beginnings of Virtue
		The Interaction of Feeling and Reflecting in Growth of the Moral Sprouts
		Conflict Between Duties to Family and Duties to Those Outside the Family
		The Complex Relationship Between Family Duties and Duties to Humanity
		Daoist Connection to All Things in the World
		Attachment and Loss
		Combining Confucian and Daoist Approaches to Love
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 31: Love:
India’s Distinctive Moral Theory
		Introduction
		Explication and Four Basic Moral Theories Including Love
		Love: Meditation and Intimacy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 32: Love in the Jewish Tradition
		God’s Love
		The Rabbinic Tradition: Requiting God’s Love by Loving Our Fellows
		Maimonides and Love of God as an Intellectual Endeavor
		Intellectual Love and Moral Virtue
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 33:
Love in Islamic Philosophy
		Introduction
		Looking for Love in Islamic Philosophy
		The Love of Learning: Abu Bakr al-Razi
		The Love of Politics: Abu Nasr Farabi
		The Essence and Existence of Love: Ibn Sina
		For the Love of God: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
		Love Illuminated: Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 34: Three Models of Christian Love:
Platonic, Aristotelian, and Kantian
		Christian Interpretations of Platonism
		Christian Interpretations of Platonic Love
		Christian Interpretations of Aristotle
		Christian Interpretations of Aristotelian Love
		A Paradigm of the Modern Enlightenment Era: Kantian Christianity
		Kantian Love
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
		Further Reading
	Chapter 35: European concepts of love in the 17th and 18th centuries
		Theologically Motivated Natural Right Conceptions of Love
			The Religious Renovators
			Malebranche
		Mechanical-Physiological Natural Right Conceptions of Love
			Charron and Ferrand
			Descartes
			Spinoza
			Descartes and Spinoza on Friendship
		Hedonistic Concepts of Love
			Voltaire
			La Mettrie
		17th and 18th-Century Women Philosophers on Love
			Mary Astell
			Damaris Masham
			Emilie Du Châtelet
			Mary Wollstonecraft
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 36:
Love in 19th-Century western philosophy
		Introduction
		Hegel: Love Unifies
		Kierkegaard: Love Edifies
		Schopenhauer: Love Hurts, but Loving Kindness Heals
		Nietzsche: Love Affirms
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 37: (The varieties of ) love in contemporary Anglophone philosophy
		Love as a Topic in Normative Theory
			Irreplaceability, Constancy, and Reasons for Love
			Quality Views and Wrong Kinds of Reasons
		Agapic Love
		Loving Attachment
		Reactive Love
		Aesthetic Love
		Aspirational Love
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 38: Love in contemporary psychology and neuroscience
		Introduction
		Why Do People Fall in Love?
		Love as an Emotion
		Triangular Theories of Love
		Love as Attachment
		Love and Psychoanalysis
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Index