...Kieran Setiya This essay is about love and its place in ethics. It argues that there is no one it is irrational to love, that it is rational to act with partiality to those we love, and that the rationality of doing so is not conditional on love. It follows that Anscombe and Taurek are right: you...

...Timothy Schroeder Brogaard Berit , On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion . New York : Oxford University Press , 2015 . xvi +270 pp. © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 Berit Brogaard's On Romantic Love mixes together popularizations of professional...

...Paul Weithman Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship . University of Chicago Press, 2008. xv +417 pp. © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Peter Hylton, Quine. New York: Routledge, 2007. x þ...

... possibility for us. Where Love and Resentment Meet: Strawson’s Intrapersonal Defense of Compatibilism Seth Shabo University of Delaware 1. Introduction P. F. Strawson (1993) set a tall agenda for an ordinary...

...Niko Kolodny Cornell University 2003 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 2 (April 2003) Love as Valuing a Relationship Niko Kolodny At first glance, love seems to be a psychological state for which there are normative reasons...

... for this. The definite article is sometimes pronounced with names in the singular: ‘The Ivan we all love doesn't feel well’. Sloat proposed a disjunctive generalization of when the definite article must be pronounced with a singular name. This essay shows that by slightly revising Sloat's generalization, we arrive...

... Kant stating without hesitation that an agent “indeed” (i.e., successfully) incorporates the moral incentive “together” with self-love. Earlier, he even states that a human being is “dependent on the incentives of his sensuous nature…and he incorporates them too [along with the moral law] into his...

... an alternative to an aether or to block the threatened regress of aethers by “vivifying” an aether. 129 BOOK REVIEWS Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. University of Chicago Press, 2008...

.... 129 BOOK REVIEWS Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. University of Chicago Press, 2008. xv þ417 pp. This book contributes to the important discussion of what religious bases there are for liberalism...

.... 129 BOOK REVIEWS Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. University of Chicago Press, 2008. xv þ417 pp. This book contributes to the important discussion of what religious bases there are for liberalism...

... an alternative to an aether or to block the threatened regress of aethers by “vivifying” an aether. 129 BOOK REVIEWS Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. University of Chicago Press, 2008...

.... 129 BOOK REVIEWS Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. University of Chicago Press, 2008. xv þ417 pp. This book contributes to the important discussion of what religious bases there are for liberalism...

... seems to hold that love of others derives from self-love, yet he also holds that a virtuous person will, if necessary, sacrifice himself for the good of his friends or community. In translation 5 Henry of Ghent distances himself from Aristotle’s “blaze of glory” solution—the virtuous person chooses...

... meaningfully talk of a relation holding of several objects in a given order. Thus it is sup- posed that we may meaningfully-indeed, correctly-talk of the relation loves holding of Anthony and Cleopatra or of the relation between holding of New York, Washington, and Boston. But innoc- uous...

... the English “Wei knows that Xin loves Yun”, he would have used the character zhi : this character can mean “know”. But the character has a broader semantic range than “know”. It can be used to describe a change of state, and in this usage it is naturally translated as “realize” or “recognize”. Zhi can also...

... of pluralism can be found in the multiple “bases of respon- siveness”; that is, more than one feature of an item to be responded to may be morally relevant. Another source of pluralism has to do with the “modes of responsiveness”; one might respond by, for instance, loving an item, respecting it, honoring...

... with an innate “depravity” or “perversity of the heart.” Such depravity is a feature of the “radical evil in human nature” through which we come to heed the claims of self-love over those of morality.1 Although Kant (R 6:22n, 35, 37) denies that human beings could ever intend evil purely for its own sake, he...

... con- tributes to this worthwhile discussion, the argument for the book’s contro- versial thesis is not convincing. The book has three parts. The first three chapters present an argument for the thesis that personal love and loyalty can result in the types of “be- nign integral breakdown...

... be identifi ed with this class in lieu of its characteristic function. The extension of a doubly bound occurrence of a doubly open expression, like ‘x is a sister of y’ or ‘x loves y’, must be sensitive to the particular manner in which its internal variables are bound in a par- ticular...

... value constraint, claiming that only the commands of a loving God were fit to constitute moral obligations. In Finite and Infinite Goods he develops this notion of a loving and good God in what is now a fundamen- tally Good-centered ethical framework with a subordinate divine command theory of moral...