Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy.
Title:
Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy.
Author:
De Dijn, Herman.
ISBN:
9789461660183
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1 online resource (270 pages)
Contents:
The Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Affiliations of the Contributors -- Cartesian Subjectivity and Love -- 1. The problem of the emotion -- 2. Love and representation -- 3. The problem of the interest -- The Role of Amicitia in Political Life -- L'apparition de l'amour de soi dans l'Éthique -- Nature et fondement de l'amour-propreou de l'amour de soi -- L'absence d'amour-propre dans le Court Traité et le Traité de la réforme de l'entendement -- L'émergence de l'amour-propre et de l'amour de soi dans l'Éthique -- Spinoza über Liebe und Erkenntnis -- Leibniz on Love -- 1.1. Passions, Passivity -- 1.2. The Conatus -- 1.3. Passions and Actions Reconsidered -- 2. Leibnizean Love -- 2.1. The Metaphysical Concept of Love -- 3. Love in Natural Law -- Abbreviations -- Malebranche on Natural and Free Loves -- 1. Descartes on Passionate and Rational Love -- 1.1. Passionate love in the Passions -- 1.2. Rational love in the letter to Chanut -- 2. Malebranche on Love and the Will -- 2.1. Descartes and Augustine -- 2.2. Three characteristics of the will -- 2.2.1. Will as motion -- 2.2.2. Will as directed to the good -- 2.2.3. Will as the desire for happiness -- 3. Malebranche on Natural Love -- 4. Malebranche on Free Love -- 4.1. The turning of natural love -- 4.2. The rest of consent -- 4.3. The determination of free love -- The Problem of Conscience and Order in the Amour-pur Debate -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- Love of God and Love of Creatures: The Masham-Astell Exchange -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- The Theory and Regulation of Love in 17th Century Philosophy -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- 7. -- Frances Hutcheson: From moral sense to spectatorial rights -- 1. Background -- 2. Hutcheson's moral theory -- 3. Hutcheson on rights -- 4. Hutcheson on Animal Rights -- 5. Conclusion.
Philosophy as medicina mentis? Hume and Spinoza on Emotions and Wisdom -- 1. Spinoza and the Search for Wisdom -- 2. Conatus, Emotions, Reason -- 3. From knowledge to salvation -- 4. Hume on reason and 'the medecine of the mind' -- 5. From Passions to Reason -- 6. Humean Wisdom and Diffidence -- The Depth of the Heart - "even if a bit tumultuous". On Compassion and Erotic Love in Diderot's Ethics -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- 7. -- 8. -- 9. -- 10. -- 11. -- 12. -- Motivational Internalism: A Kantian Perspective on Moral Motives and Reasons -- Introduction -- 1. Reason or feeling? The British Debate concerningmoral motives -- 2. Kant's conception of moral motivation -- 3. The formal, emotive and autonomous dimensions of moral motivation -- Conclusion -- Kant on: "Love God above all, and your neighbour as yourself" -- 1. Love As The Content Of Kant's Ethics Of Virtue -- 2. How must the Duty of Love be seen as a Divine Command? -- A. The Duty Of Religion As A Duty Of A Human BeingTo Himself -- 1. The recognition of all our duties as divine commands -- 2. God, a fiction strengthening the moral feeling of respect -- B. The Command 'To Love God' and The Disposition of Gladness -- 1. Gladness and holiness -- 2. Inner religion as rational self-love -- C. A Theological Principle Of The Duty Of Love Of God: God's Love For Us -- 1. Love deduced from God's goodness -- 2. God's goodness limited by justice -- 3. The Second Commandment: Menschenliebe in its Universality -- A. Love to others: feeling and benevolence -- B. "As myself" -- C. A Theological Principle For The Second Commandment -- 4. Struggling with the Noumenal Freedom in Practical Love: Emotions and Passions -- 5. Recapitulation and Assessment: Love Languishing in Awe, Guilt and Justice -- 6. A metaphysics of love beyond the Kantian limits of reason alone.
Abstract:
"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 believe that values are inescapable, and that the descriptive-mechanical method implies its own set of values. Yet the assertion by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz, and Enlightenment thinkers that love guides us to wisdom-and even that the love of a God who creates and maintains order and harmony in the world forms the core of ethical behaviour-still resonates powerfully with us. It is, evidently, an idea we are unwilling to relinquish. This collection of insightful essays emerged from two "ContactFora" organized within the framework of the research project Actuality of the Enlightenment: The Moral Science of Emotions, conducted under the auspices of Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. It offers a range of important and fascinating perspectives on how the triumph of "reason" affected not only our scientific-philosophical understanding of the emotions and especially of love, but our everyday understanding as well.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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