Love as a Guide to Morals

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3530-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 249, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 261 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Ethical Theory and Practice

Love as a Guide to Morals is an entry-level introduction to the ethical importance of love. Written in conversational format this book looks uniquely at the complexity of love in human relationships and how love can guide ethical decision-making. The book suggests that love in all its intricacy—erotic/erosic love, friendship, affection, and agapic love—is the great good of human life. The book argues that love has a unifying power for morality, and is more suited to ethical thinking and practice than any other idea. Love as a Guide to Morals uses a modified Aristotelian argument (after Alsdair MacIntyre) and suggests “loving relationships” rather than happiness as the goal of human life.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Olli Loukola: Editorial Foreword
Barry L. Gan: Guest Foreword
Preface
Love and Morality
Love’s Complexity
Love’s Appearance: Eros
Love’s Appearance: Friendship, Affection, and Agape
Love-Itself
Love’s Practice
Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
About Author
Index