Under 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.
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The Moral Psychology of Love
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Moral Psychology of Love (or How to Think About Love)
- Part I: Love
- Chapter 1: Don’t Ask If Love Is Moral
- Chapter 2: The Neurobiology of Love
- Chapter 3: The Good and Bad of Love and Hate
- Chapter 4: The Role of Ideals in Intimate Relationships
- Part II: Relationships and Norms
- Chapter 5: Love for One?: Romantic Love and Altruism in Pair-bonds
- Chapter 6: “I Am Glad That My Partner Is Happy with Her Lover”: On Jealousy, and Compersion
- Chapter 7: Multiple Loves and Shaped Selves
- Chapter 8: Being Trans, Being Loved: Clashing Identities and the Limits of Love
- Part III: Love and Morality
- Chapter 9: The Possibility of a Duty to Love
- Chapter 10: Love and Integrity
- Chapter 11: Vices of Friendship
- Chapter 12: Internal Bleeding: How Covert Misogyny within Loving Relationships Tears Us Apart
- Chapter 13: Interrogating the Immorality of Infidelity
- Index
- About the Authors
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