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Values of love

Two forms of infinity characteristic of human persons

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ID21750845
AuthorsSara Heinämaa (0000-0002-8458-2196, Research Council of Finland, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume19
Issue3
Pages431-450
Publication date2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1568-7759 • E-ISSN: 1572-8676
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11097-019-09653-2
OpenAlexW2998496297
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited33

In his late reflections on values and forms of life from the 1920s and 1930s, Husserl develops the concept of personal value and argues that these values open two kinds of infinities in our lives. On the one hand personal values disclose infinite emotive depths in human individuals while on the other hand they connect human individuals in continuous and progressive chains of care. In order to get at the core of the concept, I will explicate Husserl’s discussion of personal values of love by distinguishing between five related features. I demonstrate that values of love (1) are rooted in egoic depts and define who we are as persons, (2) differ from objective values in being absolute and non-comparative, (3) ground vocational lives as organizing principles, (4) are endlessly self-disclosing and self-intensifying, and (5) establish transitive relations of care between human beings. On the basis of my five-partite distinction, I argue that Husserl’s concepts of love and value of love reveal the dynamic character of human subjectivity and intersubjectivity

Emotive · Epistemology · Human values · Intersubjectivity · Lifeworld · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Transitive relation · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Mathematics · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Citations per year3
Citation span2021 - 2026 (6)
Citation velocitycurrent
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