Antonie Vos
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624621
- eISBN:
- 9780748652372
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624621.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter explores the works of John Duns Scotus related to ethics. It presents the bare challenge of Scotian ethical dilemma and interprets the key words of Scotus's ethical terminology with a ...
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This chapter explores the works of John Duns Scotus related to ethics. It presents the bare challenge of Scotian ethical dilemma and interprets the key words of Scotus's ethical terminology with a view to his language of argumentation in ethics. The chapter discusses the essentials of his philosophy of love, proposes solutions to the Quintonian and Harrisian fallacies, and also considers the Scotian solution of the problem of dispensation from law and the structure of virtue.Less
This chapter explores the works of John Duns Scotus related to ethics. It presents the bare challenge of Scotian ethical dilemma and interprets the key words of Scotus's ethical terminology with a view to his language of argumentation in ethics. The chapter discusses the essentials of his philosophy of love, proposes solutions to the Quintonian and Harrisian fallacies, and also considers the Scotian solution of the problem of dispensation from law and the structure of virtue.
Sal Renshaw
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719069604
- eISBN:
- 9781781702956
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719069604.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This book is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred, often ...
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This book is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred, often reserved only for God and rarely thought of as a human achievement. The book is a substantial engagement with Cixous's philosophies of love, inviting the reader to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open us to something like a divine love of the other. It follows this thread in this genealogy of abundant love: the thread that connects the subject of love from fifth-century-b.c.e. Greece and Plato, to the twentieth-century protestant theology of agapic love of Anders Nygren, to the late twentieth-century poetico-philosophy of Hélène Cixous.Less
This book is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred, often reserved only for God and rarely thought of as a human achievement. The book is a substantial engagement with Cixous's philosophies of love, inviting the reader to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open us to something like a divine love of the other. It follows this thread in this genealogy of abundant love: the thread that connects the subject of love from fifth-century-b.c.e. Greece and Plato, to the twentieth-century protestant theology of agapic love of Anders Nygren, to the late twentieth-century poetico-philosophy of Hélène Cixous.
Sven Nyholm and Lily Eva Frank
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036689
- eISBN:
- 9780262341981
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036689.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter looks into the possibility of genuine loving relationships with robots (mutual love). Our primary aim is to offer a framework for approaching the question of mutual love. But we also ...
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This chapter looks into the possibility of genuine loving relationships with robots (mutual love). Our primary aim is to offer a framework for approaching the question of mutual love. But we also sketch a tentative answer. Our tentative answer is that whereas mutual love between humans and sex-robots is not in principle impossible, it is hard to achieve. Nevertheless, building robots capable of mutual love may help to address concerns raised by critics of human-robot sexual relationships. Our discussion below generates a “job description” that advanced sex-robots would need to live up in order to be able to participate in relationships that can be recognized as mutual love.Less
This chapter looks into the possibility of genuine loving relationships with robots (mutual love). Our primary aim is to offer a framework for approaching the question of mutual love. But we also sketch a tentative answer. Our tentative answer is that whereas mutual love between humans and sex-robots is not in principle impossible, it is hard to achieve. Nevertheless, building robots capable of mutual love may help to address concerns raised by critics of human-robot sexual relationships. Our discussion below generates a “job description” that advanced sex-robots would need to live up in order to be able to participate in relationships that can be recognized as mutual love.
Irving Singer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262512749
- eISBN:
- 9780262315135
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262512749.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter discusses the two traditions of approaching philosophies of love, namely the “idealist” approach and the “realist” approach. The idealist tradition does not doubt that there are ...
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This chapter discusses the two traditions of approaching philosophies of love, namely the “idealist” approach and the “realist” approach. The idealist tradition does not doubt that there are physiological components in sexual or even religious love, but it rejects the idea that such components define what love is and may become. It claims that they are neither necessary conditions for love nor sufficient to understand its essence. The realist tradition, on the other hand, relies on the latest science available at the time. According to realists, love can be defined by reference to physiological, biological, or sociopsychological aspects. In developing the idealist tradition, ideas regarding the oneness between men and women were altered as much as attitudes toward sex were. The transmutation of religious reverence into human devotion gave womankind an inherent value that never existed before.Less
This chapter discusses the two traditions of approaching philosophies of love, namely the “idealist” approach and the “realist” approach. The idealist tradition does not doubt that there are physiological components in sexual or even religious love, but it rejects the idea that such components define what love is and may become. It claims that they are neither necessary conditions for love nor sufficient to understand its essence. The realist tradition, on the other hand, relies on the latest science available at the time. According to realists, love can be defined by reference to physiological, biological, or sociopsychological aspects. In developing the idealist tradition, ideas regarding the oneness between men and women were altered as much as attitudes toward sex were. The transmutation of religious reverence into human devotion gave womankind an inherent value that never existed before.
Susanne Zepp
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804787451
- eISBN:
- 9780804793148
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804787451.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This chapter is dedicated to an analysis of Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore (1505/1535). Their author was Lisbon-born Judah Abrabanel who ranked among the most important philosophers and writers of ...
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This chapter is dedicated to an analysis of Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore (1505/1535). Their author was Lisbon-born Judah Abrabanel who ranked among the most important philosophers and writers of his time. At the center of his main work written in Italian are contemplations on the essence of love. In three dialogues the two noble characters Filone and Sofia discuss love as a cosmic concept. The chapter attempts to illustrate the simultaneous adoption of components from Christian, Arabic, and Jewish sources as a distinctive feature of this work. Dialoghi d’amore does not contrast new contexts with familiar ones, instead the boundaries between different contexts are eliminated altogether. The text’s representational foundation makes way for a permanent shift of meaning. From this procedural variation, a direct path leads to the literature and literary theory of European Romanticism.Less
This chapter is dedicated to an analysis of Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore (1505/1535). Their author was Lisbon-born Judah Abrabanel who ranked among the most important philosophers and writers of his time. At the center of his main work written in Italian are contemplations on the essence of love. In three dialogues the two noble characters Filone and Sofia discuss love as a cosmic concept. The chapter attempts to illustrate the simultaneous adoption of components from Christian, Arabic, and Jewish sources as a distinctive feature of this work. Dialoghi d’amore does not contrast new contexts with familiar ones, instead the boundaries between different contexts are eliminated altogether. The text’s representational foundation makes way for a permanent shift of meaning. From this procedural variation, a direct path leads to the literature and literary theory of European Romanticism.
Diane Enns
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231178969
- eISBN:
- 9780231542098
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231178969.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Intimate love opens us up to suffering, sacrifice, and loss. Is it always worth the risk? Consulting philosophers, writers, and poets who draw insights from material life, Diane Enns shines a light ...
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Intimate love opens us up to suffering, sacrifice, and loss. Is it always worth the risk? Consulting philosophers, writers, and poets who draw insights from material life, Diane Enns shines a light on the limits of erotic love, exploring its paradoxes through personal and philosophical reflections. Situating experience at the center of her inquiry, Enns conducts philosophy “by another name,” elaborating the ambiguities and risks of love with visceral clarity. Love in the Dark claims that intimacy must accept risk as long as love does not destroy the self. Erotic love inspires an inexplicable affirmation of another but can erode autonomy and vulnerability. There is a limit to love, and appreciating it requires a rethinking of love’s liberal paradigms, which Enns traces back to the hostility toward the body and eros in Christianity and the Western philosophical tradition. Against a legacy of an abstract and sanitized love, Enns recasts erotic attachment as an event linked to conditional circumstances. The value of love lies in its intensity and depth, and its end does not negate love’s truth or significance. Writing in a lyrical, genre-defying style, Enns delineates the paradoxes of love in its relations to lust, abuse, suffering, and grief to reach an account faithful to human experience.Less
Intimate love opens us up to suffering, sacrifice, and loss. Is it always worth the risk? Consulting philosophers, writers, and poets who draw insights from material life, Diane Enns shines a light on the limits of erotic love, exploring its paradoxes through personal and philosophical reflections. Situating experience at the center of her inquiry, Enns conducts philosophy “by another name,” elaborating the ambiguities and risks of love with visceral clarity. Love in the Dark claims that intimacy must accept risk as long as love does not destroy the self. Erotic love inspires an inexplicable affirmation of another but can erode autonomy and vulnerability. There is a limit to love, and appreciating it requires a rethinking of love’s liberal paradigms, which Enns traces back to the hostility toward the body and eros in Christianity and the Western philosophical tradition. Against a legacy of an abstract and sanitized love, Enns recasts erotic attachment as an event linked to conditional circumstances. The value of love lies in its intensity and depth, and its end does not negate love’s truth or significance. Writing in a lyrical, genre-defying style, Enns delineates the paradoxes of love in its relations to lust, abuse, suffering, and grief to reach an account faithful to human experience.
Irving Singer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262512725
- eISBN:
- 9780262315111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262512725.003.0016
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter concludes the volume by discussing the philosophy of love from antiquity into the Middle Ages. Troubadours of the twelfth century sang of an ideal love, and out of their poetry came the ...
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This chapter concludes the volume by discussing the philosophy of love from antiquity into the Middle Ages. Troubadours of the twelfth century sang of an ideal love, and out of their poetry came the ideas that have made the modern world. When the northern tradition of courtly love presented ideas about adultery and sexual freedom, the church condemned these movements as heresies. The passage from courtly to Romantic love largely consists of a series of reactions to the narrowness of medieval religious idealization. The church had condoned the sexual instinct but condemned all attempts to idealize sexuality. Marriage was holy, but only as a means of reproducing the species, and could not serve as the basis of an ideal love.Less
This chapter concludes the volume by discussing the philosophy of love from antiquity into the Middle Ages. Troubadours of the twelfth century sang of an ideal love, and out of their poetry came the ideas that have made the modern world. When the northern tradition of courtly love presented ideas about adultery and sexual freedom, the church condemned these movements as heresies. The passage from courtly to Romantic love largely consists of a series of reactions to the narrowness of medieval religious idealization. The church had condoned the sexual instinct but condemned all attempts to idealize sexuality. Marriage was holy, but only as a means of reproducing the species, and could not serve as the basis of an ideal love.
Reidar Due
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231167338
- eISBN:
- 9780231850513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231167338.003.0012
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This introductory chapter presents an overview of the philosophy of love. Since Plato's dialogue, Symposion, there have been almost no philosophical theories about love. The dialogue states that the ...
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This introductory chapter presents an overview of the philosophy of love. Since Plato's dialogue, Symposion, there have been almost no philosophical theories about love. The dialogue states that the philosophical truth of love is a spiritual truth. Love is not a theoretical phenomenon. The complex phenomenon that love is always involves two distinct perspectives—the subjective perspective of the lovers, and the third-person perspective of those who surround the lovers as involuntary observers and commentators. Love in this book will be addressed in a metaphysical sense, claiming that love, before it is classified within any particular domain of reality, is a relation. It is not in a subjective feeling but in a reciprocal relation of desire that love fully comes into being.Less
This introductory chapter presents an overview of the philosophy of love. Since Plato's dialogue, Symposion, there have been almost no philosophical theories about love. The dialogue states that the philosophical truth of love is a spiritual truth. Love is not a theoretical phenomenon. The complex phenomenon that love is always involves two distinct perspectives—the subjective perspective of the lovers, and the third-person perspective of those who surround the lovers as involuntary observers and commentators. Love in this book will be addressed in a metaphysical sense, claiming that love, before it is classified within any particular domain of reality, is a relation. It is not in a subjective feeling but in a reciprocal relation of desire that love fully comes into being.