Love and the Value of a Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10700445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kieran Setiya (0000-0002-0669-8556, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 251-280 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00318108-2683522 |
| OpenAlex | W2138598776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 17 |
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 are not required to save three instead of one, even when those you could save are perfect strangers
Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Irrational number · Law and economics · Rationality · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Free Will and Agency · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Consequentialism and the separateness of persons
Should We Want to Be Loved Unconditionally and Forever
Breaking Up and the Value of Commitment
Of Soulmates and Old Spouses
The Many, the Few, and the Nature of Value
Skepticism about reasons for emotions
Fitting Love and Uniqueness
Love and the Basis of Dignity
Kierkegaard on the Reasons for Neighborly Love
Love's realism
Clarissa Dalloway and the Tragedy of Appreciation
For Yourself Alone
Love and evaluative conflict
Why devotion mandates self-transcendence
Against the Entitlement Model of Obligation
Forgive, Because You Were Forgiven
Respect for Nature, Respect for Persons, Respect for Value
Counting People and Making People Count
Each counts for one
The aesthetics of coming to know someone
Finite love
An individual reality, separate from oneself
The loving state
You’ve Changed
Aggregation, Risk, and Reductio
Partisanship and the trolley problem
What Is the Point of a Duty of Beneficence? Reevaluating Taurek
Never Just Save the Few
The Ethics of Existence
A Tripartite Theory of Love
On an Analytic Definition of Love
A puzzle about loving your enemy
Really Looking and Being Seen
Do We Love For Reasons
Save the five
Love First
Beyond Words
The possibility of fitting love
Love and unselfing
Partial aggregation in ethics
The Practice of Moral Judgment
Love as a Moral Emotion
The Sovereignty of Good
Moral Demands in Nonideal Theory
Civilization and Its Discontents
What We Owe to Each Other
The Practice of Moral Judgment
Love as Valuing a Relationship
Backgrounding Desire
Moral Dimensions
Reasons without Rationalism
Saving Lives, Moral Theory, and the Claims of Individuals
Skepticism about Saving the Greater Number
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |