Love and Its Objects

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Christian Maurer, Tony Milligan, Kamila Pacovská

      Pages 1-4

3. Romantic and Erotic Love

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Between I and Thou — On the Dialogical Nature of Love

      • Angelika Krebs

      Pages 7-24

   3. Ain’t Love Nothing but Sex Misspelled? The Role of Sex in Romantic Love

      • Aaron Ben-Ze’ev

      Pages 25-40

   4. Loving Persons: Activity and Passivity in Romantic Love

      • Michael Kühler

      Pages 41-55

   5. What Did Socrates Love?

      • Tomáš Hejduk

      Pages 56-71

4. The Appropriate Beloved

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Self-hatred, Self-love, and Value

      • Kate Abramson, Adam Leite

      Pages 75-90

   3. Is It Better to Love Better Things?

      • Aaron Smuts

      Pages 91-107

   4. Loving the Lovable

      • Katrien Schaubroeck

      Pages 108-124

   5. Loving Villains: Virtue in Response to Wrongdoing

      • Kamila Pacovská

      Pages 125-139

5. Strangers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Loving a Stranger

      • Jan Bransen

      Pages 143-159

   3. On ‘Love at First Sight’

      • Christian Maurer

      Pages 160-174

6. Humans and Persons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Love Reveals Persons as Irreplaceable

      • Elizabeth Drummond Young

      Pages 177-191

   3. What Relationship Structure Tells Us about Love

      • Magdalena Hoffmann

      Pages 192-208

7. The Nonhuman

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Animals and the Capacity for Love

      • Tony Milligan

      Pages 211-225

This collection of essays on the philosophy of love, by leading contributors to the discussion, places particular emphasis on the relation between love, its character and appropriateness and the objects towards which it is directed: romantic and erotic partners, persons, ourselves, strangers, non-human animals and art.

• Love
• Sex
• Eros
• Friendship
• Moral Philosophy
• Care
• Philia
• Relationships
• Ethics
• Moral Psychology
• Literature
• Good
• Evil
• Beauty
• Velleman
• Frankfurt
• Kolodny
• Gaita
• Buber
• Scheler
• animals
• art
• care
• Enzo Paci
• essay
• humans
• knowledge
• love
• philosophy
• Romanticism
• Socrates
• structure

• University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  Christian Maurer

• University of Hertfordshire, UK

  Tony Milligan

• University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

  Kamila Pacovská

Kate Abramson, Indiana University, USA Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, University of Haifa, Israel Jan Bransen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Elizabeth Drummond Young, University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Gustafsson works at the intersections of philosophy, theology and the arts Tomá Hejduk, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic Magdalena Hoffmann, University of Bern, Switzerland Angelika Krebs, University of Basel, Switzerland Michael Kühler, Münster University, Germany Adam Leite, Indiana University, USA Katrien Schaubroeck, University of Antwerp, Belgium Aaron Smuts, Rhode Island College, USA

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