Description
Book SynopsisUnder what circumstances can love generate moral reasons for action? Are there morally appropriate ways to love? Can an occurrence of love or a failure to love constitute a moral failure? Is it better to love morally good people?
This volume explores the moral dimensions of love through the lenses of political philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. It attempts to discern how various social norms affect our experience and understanding of love, how love, relates to other affective states such as emotions and desires, and how love influences and is influenced by reason. What love is affects what love ought to be. Conversely, our ideas of what love ought to be partly determined by our conception of what love is.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
- Love: The Psychological and the Conceptual, Alan Soble
- The Neurobiology of Love, Donatella Marazziti
- The Role of Ideals in Love, Robert J. Sternberg
- Altruism in Marriage, Bianca P. Acevedo
- Love and Moral Imperfection, Berit Brogaard and Arina Pismenny
- Is the Morality of Love Worth Discussing?, Ronald de Sousa
- Circumstantial (In)Fidelity and Its Implications for a Monogamous Society, Terri D. Conley, Jennifer Piemonte, Staci Gusakova, and Jennifer D. Rubin
- Is Jealousy More Natural Than Compersion? On The Complexity of Emotions Toward The Good Fortune of Others, Aaron Ben-Ze’ev
- Polyamory and Individual Identity, Luke Brunning
- Romantic Love and Moral Values, Raja Halwani
- Being Trans, Being Loved: clashing identities and the limits of love, Gen Eickers
- To Love is to Care. To Care is to…, Aaron Smuts
- The Good and Bad of Love and Hate, Katherine Aumer and Michael Erickson
