Love and Hatred

Abstract

disappeared from contemporary philosophical analysis, it did not disappear, of course, from everyday life and from relations within and between countries, religions, political parties, families, and so on. Why then do today’s ethicists not address hatred as love’s counterpart? In this paper, we offer an account of love’s and hatred’s role in motivation and of their respective normative status. Recent contributions argue that love supplies reasons: final reasons on one view, defeasible reasons on others. A plausible account, we agree, aims to capture love’s prominent role 2