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In this essay I explore the different ways in which love involves a historical dimension, and I argue that the proper way to capture the relevant historicity of love includes an appreciation of the irreplaceability of the beloved.
- Christopher Grau
- 2010
Apr 8, 2005 · Rorty (1986/1993) does not try to present a complete account of love; rather, she focuses on the idea that “relational psychological attitudes” which, like love, essentially involve emotional and desiderative responses, exhibit historicity: “they arise from, and are shaped by, dynamic interactions between a subject and an object” (p. 73 ...
Aug 24, 2010 · Understanding love through philosophy, film, and fiction. What philosophers know: Case studies in recent analytic philosophy. Personal relationships: Love, identity, and morality. The historicity of psychological attitudes: Love is not love which alters not when it alteration finds.
- Christopher Grau
- 2010
Thus, each period in history offers a prevailing concept of love: in ancient, pre-Socratic times, we have Empedocles’ Love (Philotes) and Strife (Neikos); in Socratic times, Plato’s Eros and Aristotle’s Philia; in the middle ages, St. Paul’s Agape and St. Augustine’s Caritas; in the Renaissance, Rousseau’s notion of a modern ...
Feb 13, 2020 · How romantic love is understood today has several historical origins, says Robert Pogue Harrison, the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature and a scholar of romance studies.
The following article surveys different forms of historicity in philosophical and theoretical traditions, analyzes institutions that influence official accounts of history, and posits literary and imaginative engagements with the past as an important mode of social and cultural critique.
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Mar 7, 2022 · France, England, Japan, India and China all experience an increase in romantic love. Our analyses show that both economic development and transmitted culture contribute significantly to the model...