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Love's Vision Troy Jollimore

Love's Vision By Troy Jollimore

Love's Vision by Troy Jollimore


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Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. This title offers a fresh way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality.

Love's Vision Summary

Love's Vision by Troy Jollimore

Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon--an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato's Symposium, love is something in between. Jollimore makes his case by proposing a vision view of love, according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves bestowing charitable attention on a loved one. This view recognizes the truth in the cliche love is blind, but holds that love's blindness does not undermine the idea that love is guided by reason. Reasons play an important role in love even if they rest on facts that are not themselves rationally justifiable. Filled with illuminating examples from literature, Love's Vision is an original examination of a subject of vital philosophical and human concern.

Love's Vision Reviews

In the elegantly written Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a novel way to understand romantic love. His book draws upon a vast body of philosophical literature on the nature of love, but it is easily accessible for those without a background in philosophy. It is full of useful examples from literature, film and music, and is compelling and fun to read... Jollimore offers us not only a new way of understanding love, but also practical insight into how to love and how to make it last.--Natasha McKeever, Journal of Applied Philosophy My enthusiasm for the text should ... be clear. I like the content, I like the way it's put together... [This is] a fine book which ... deserves a readership well beyond the ranks of those with a special interest in analytic philosophy of love.--Tony Milligan, Metapsychology Online Reviews Troy Jollimore's Love's Vision is a compelling response to the debate regarding the rationality of love. Its easy style combines readability with thorough argumentation. Its most appealing and original feature is the challenge it poses to traditional conceptions of rationality, which tend to simply equate it with a disengaged, impartial stance.--Irene McMullin, Philosophical Quarterly

About Troy Jollimore

Troy Jollimore is associate professor of philosophy at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality. He is also the author of two books of poems, At Lake Scugog (Princeton) and Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Table of Contents

Preface xi Acknowledgments xix Chapter One: Something In Between: On the Nature of Love 1 Chapter Two: Love's Blindness (1): Love's Closed Heart 28 Chapter Three: Love's Blindness (2): Love's Friendly Eye 46 Chapter Four: Beyond Comparison 74 Chapter Five: Commitments, Values, and Frameworks 95 Chapter Six: Valuing Persons 123 Chapter Seven: Love and Morality 146 Afterword: Between the Universal and the Particular 169 Notes 173 References 189 Index 195

Additional information

GOR013912416
9780691148724
0691148724
Love's Vision by Troy Jollimore
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Princeton University Press
20110725
232
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