{"title":"The Normative Potency of Sexually Exclusive Love 1","authors":"Jennifer Ryan Lockhart","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129887677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Love in the Jewish Tradition","authors":"L. Goodman","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116589375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eros and Agape in Interpersonal Relationships","authors":"Daniel G. Campos","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115855082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Love and Marriage","authors":"Brook J. Sadler","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116678771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Love of Nature","authors":"R. A. Furtak","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122712558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(The Varieties of) Love in Contemporary Anglophone Philosophy","authors":"Benjamin Bagley","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-38","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter assesses theories of the nature of personal love in Anglophone philosophy from the last two decades, sketching a case for pluralism. After rejecting arationalist views as failing to accommodate cases in which love is irrational, and contemporary quality views as giving love the wrong kind of reason, it argues that other theories only account for different subsets of what a complete theory of love should explain. It therefore concludes that while love always consists in valuing someone as a particular individual, there are multiple ways of doing this, corresponding to multiple kinds of love. (6,954 words.) The example of love most discussed in contemporary Anglophone philosophy, originally introduced by Bernard Williams, is a man who saves his drowning wife over a stranger. Though clearly morally permissible under the circumstances, Williams argued that as far as the husband is concerned this should be beside the point. The alternative, he claimed, “provides the agent with one thought too many” (Williams 1981: 18). If the man were willing to save his wife only on that condition, his concern would lack something vital. Williams meant this case to illustrate a general point, about the unconditional nature of the commitments—often but not always aptly described as matters of love—we necessarily have to whatever makes our lives worth living. (See e.g. Wolf 2015.) But it’s also been read more narrowly, as concerned with the justification of partiality in interpersonal relationships, and still more narrowly as concerned with the nature of love 2 for individuals. “It’s odd,” Derek Parfit once remarked, “that Williams gives, as the thought that the person’s wife might hope he was having, that he is saving her because she is his wife. She might have hoped that he saved her because she was Mary, or Jane, or whatever” (Murphy 2000: 140n36). In other words, she might have hoped that he saved her out of love for her in particular, and not just because he saw her as a generic locus of moral obligation or spousal concern. But what could it be to love someone in this way? This chapter aims to assess representative recent answers to this question and tentatively defend a pluralist one. To love someone is to value them as an individual, but there are multiple ways to do this. Each is responsive to a different kind of value, and involves its own forms of response. This is important for two reasons. First, theories of love that might seem like competitors are often better understood as complements, such that each aims to describe different modes of love. Second, while prototypical cases of love often involve multiple modes at once, conflating these can lead to serious confusions. 1 Love as a topic in normative theory Philosophers normally use “love” exclusively to refer to love for individuals as such. It’s worth asking what justifies this. Perhaps love is essentially for individuals as such—so anything less isn’t really love—but I don’t find this obviou","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133481278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queer Bodies and Queer Love","authors":"M. Behrensen","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114543316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reasons of Love","authors":"K. Schaubroeck","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127574845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Threats, Warnings, and Relationship Ultimatums","authors":"H. Liberto","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127801691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caring to Be Green","authors":"Cheryl Hall","doi":"10.4324/9781315645209-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413885,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126022978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}