Do We Love For Reasons

Bibliographic Data

ID10352003
AuthorsYongming Han (0000-0001-7741-7750, Philosophy department Brown University Providence USA, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume102
Issue1
Pages106-126
Publication date2019-08-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phpr.12638
OpenAlexW2970606023
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited41

Do we love for reasons? It can seem as if we do, since most cases of non‐familial love seem selective : coming to love a non‐family‐member often begins with our being drawn to them for what they are like. I argue, however, that we can vindicate love's selectivity, even if we maintain that there are no reasons for love; indeed, that gives us a simpler, and hence better, explanation of love's selectivity. We don't, in short, come to love for reasons . That which seemed like evidence for thinking that there are reasons for love, then, turns out to militate against that view how can these purported reasons be reasons for love, if they don't engender (in virtue of rationalizing) it

Art · Epistemology · Infatuation · Literature · Philosophy of love · Psychoanalysis · True love · Virtue · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil

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