The Rationality Of Love

Author : Hichem Naar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198862644
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rationality of Love written by Hichem Naar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love has been the subject of much fascination. It is indeed one of those things which elude us in many ways. The long-lasting disagreement over love's nature is unsurprising. In light of this, a piecemeal approach to love is in order. Instead of asking what love is down the line, we might need to investigate its various features and its connection to other things. The Rationality of Love addresses the question whether love belongs, paradoxically enough, to the realm of reason, whether love belongs to the class of responses, such as belief and action, that admit of norms of justification and rationality. Are there normative reasons to love someone? Can it be an appropriate or fitting response to an individual? Can it be rational? Or is love, like perceptual experiences, sensations and urges, the sort of thing we just have and for which we cannot be rationally criticizable? Hichem Naar provides a sustained defense of the rationality of love. There are reasons to love others, reasons provided by the unique value of each individual. This will in turn rule out popular accounts of love which deny love's rationality and vindicate those accounts that make room for it. Drawing on various domains of philosophical inquiry such as the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of normativity, and epistemology, Naar provides a careful assessment of the various positions in the debate over reasons for love and develops his own answer to the normative question about love.

Author : Berit Brogaard
Publisher : Philosophy in Action
ISBN 13 : 0199370737
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Romantic Love written by Berit Brogaard and published by Philosophy in Action. This book was released on 2015 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions. Can we choose who to love? Is romantic love rational? Can we love more than one person at a time? And can we make ourselves fall out of love? In On Romantic Love, Berit Brogaard attempts to get to the bottom of love's many contradictions. This short book, informed by both historical and cutting edge philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, combines a new theory of romantic love with entertaining anecdotes from real life and accessible explanations of the neuroscience underlying our wildest passions. Against the grain, Brogaard argues that love is an emotion; that it can be, at turns, both rational and irrational; and that it can be manifested in degrees. We can love one person more than another and we can love a person a little or a lot or not at all. And love isn't even always something we consciously feel. However, love -- like other emotions, both conscious and not -- is subject to rational control, and falling in or out of it can be a deliberate choice. This engaging and innovative look at a universal topic, featuring original line drawings by illustrator Gareth Southwell, illuminates the processes behind heartbreak, obsession, jealousy, attachment, and more.

Author : Damon Lance Jacobs
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452581789
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rational Relating written by Damon Lance Jacobs and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationships don't have to be that hard! Billions of people are walking around on this Earth, trying to connect with others and build meaningful and satisfying bonds. Yet for so many, there is something getting in the way of this wonderful experience. Something is preventing individuals and couples from having the joyful life they want and deserve. Rational Relating guides you through the simple, step-by-step process of creating and sustaining a relationship structure that serves to enhance love, serenity, and pleasure, while minimizing stress, resentment, and fear in relationships. It outlines the "five pillars" that will uphold and sustain emotional connections, even during the rough times. It will give you clear tools and resources for discovering abundance in your life, while using the power of your mind and spirit to enhance positive, nurturing relationships. If you are in the early stages of a new relationship, heading toward marriage or partnership, or even looking for refreshing ways to reconnect in a long-term partnership, then Rational Relating will offer you smart, innovative, and fun ways to create the love you want with others. Based on two decades of experience and thousands of sessions, Damon L. Jacobs has developed a simple framework that helps couples build a lasting and sustainable union that endures the largest and smallest of relationship earthquakes.

Author : Ronald De Sousa
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262540575
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rationality of Emotion written by Ronald De Sousa and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990-03-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the deadlocks of pure reason.The book's twelve chapters take up the following topics: alternative models of mind and emotion; the relation between evolutionary, physiological, and social factors in emotions; a taxonomy of objects of emotions; assessments of emotions for correctness and rationality; the regulation by emotions of logical and practical reasoning; emotion and time; the mechanism of emotional self-deception; the ethics of laughter; and the roles of emotions in the conduct of life. There is also an illustrative interlude, in the form of a lively dialogue about the ideology of love, jealousy, and sexual exclusiveness. A Bradford Book.

Author : Troy Jollimore
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838673
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's Vision written by Troy Jollimore and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon--an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato's Symposium, love is "something in between." Jollimore makes his case by proposing a "vision" view of love, according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves bestowing charitable attention on a loved one. This view recognizes the truth in the cliché "love is blind," but holds that love's blindness does not undermine the idea that love is guided by reason. Reasons play an important role in love even if they rest on facts that are not themselves rationally justifiable. Filled with illuminating examples from literature, Love's Vision is an original examination of a subject of vital philosophical and human concern.

Author : Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826063
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reasons of Love written by Harry G. Frankfurt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we love In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Through caring, we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with stable ambitions and concerns, and it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we lead our lives. Love is a nonvoluntary, disinterested concern for the flourishing of what we love—and self-love, as distinct from self-indulgence, is at heart of this concern. The most elementary form of self-love is no more than the desire to love, and self-love is simply a commitment to finding meaning in our lives.

Author : Christopher Grau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199395721
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love written by Christopher Grau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love offers a wide array of original essays from leading philosophers on the nature and value of love.

Author : Thomas Lewis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424340
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General Theory of Love written by Thomas Lewis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain. A General Theory of Love demonstrates that our nervous systems are not self-contained: from earliest childhood, our brains actually link with those of the people close to us, in a silent rhythm that alters the very structure of our brains, establishes life-long emotional patterns, and makes us, in large part, who we are. Explaining how relationships function, how parents shape their child’s developing self, how psychotherapy really works, and how our society dangerously flouts essential emotional laws, this is a work of rare passion and eloquence that will forever change the way you think about human intimacy.

Author : Lantz Miller
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303139920X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rationality Project written by Lantz Miller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323570
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Menachem Fisch: The Rationality of Religious Dispute written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menachem Fisch is the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is also Senior Fellow of the Kogod Center for the Renewal of Jewish Thought at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.