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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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Introduction / G. Boros, H. De Dijm, and M. Moors -- Cartesian subjectivity and love / Denis Kambouchner -- The role of Amicitia in political life / Susan James -- L'apparition de l'amour de soi dans I'Éthique / Chantal Jaquet -- Spinoza über liebe and erkenntnis / Wolfgang Bartuschat -- Leibniz on love / Gábor Boros -- Malebranche on natural and free loves / Tad Schmaltz -- The problem of conscience and order in the amour-pur debate / Dániel Schmal -- Love of God and love of creatures: the Masham-Astell exchange / Catherine Wilson -- The theory and regulation of love in 17th century philosophy / Catherine Wilson -- Frances Hutcheson: from moral sense to spectatorial rights / Aaron Garrett -- Philosophy as Medicina mentis? Hume and Spinoza on emotions and wisdom / Willem Lemmens -- The depth of the heart -- "even if a bit tumultuous". On compassion and erotic love in Diderot's ethics / Miklós Vassányi -- Motivational internalism: a Kantian perspective on moral motives and reasons / Heiner Klemme -- Kant on: "love God above all, and your neighbor as yourself" / Martin Moors |
| Summary |
""Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause."" Spinoza's definition of love (Ethics Book 3, Prop. LIX) manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth century Europe in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative ""forces of nature, "" were embraced by the new science of the mind. We are determined to volition by causes. This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding human action. But is this rational approach really value-free? Today we incline to |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
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Liebe, ... gnd |
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Love -- Philosophy
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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Love -- Philosophy
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Philosophy, Modern
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Begriff
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Philosophie
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Liefde.
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Filosofie.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Boros, Gábor, editor.
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Dijn, Herman de, 1943- editor.
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Moors, M. (Martin), 1947- editor.
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| LC no. |
2008398872 |
| ISBN |
9789461660183 |
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9461660189 |
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