Love and Its Objects What Can We Care For?

by Maurer, Christian; Milligan, Tony; Pacovská, Kamila

• ISBN13: 9781137383303
• ISBN10: 1137383305
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-09-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Love and Its Objects is a collection of essays on the philosophy of love by leading contributors to the discussion, including Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, Angelika Krebs, Aaron Smuts and Jan Bransen. Particular emphasis is placed upon the relation between love, its character, its appropriateness, and the objects toward which it is directed: romantic and erotic partners, persons, ourselves, strangers, non-human animals, and art. By focusing upon the different objects of love, and how the lover relates to them, the collection breaks new and important ground, pushing beyond the recent debates on reasons for love.

Author Biography

Christian Maurer is a Lecturer at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His publications mainly concern aspects of early modern and contemporary moral philosophy, in particular the topics of self-love, love and the passions. He is preparing a collection of essays on the philosophy of love in French.

Tony Milligan is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and is the author of Love, Beyond Animal Rights and Civil Disobedience: Protest, Justification and the Law (which explores the contemporary applicability of the civil disobedience concept as well as attempts to politicise an account of love). He has research interests in animal ethics and the virtues.

Kamila Pacovská is an Assistant Professor at University of Pardubice, Czech Republic where she lectures on ethics and the history of ethics. Her research interests are in the psychology of wrongdoing and the relation between human character and action.

Table of Contents

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