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Love's Enlightenment examines the key concepts central to today's debates over the nature and political significance of love. It will interest both specialists in the history of philosophy and scholars in fields ranging from political science and philosophy to psychology and religion who are interested in the meaning of love today.

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A number of prominent moral philosophers and political theorists have recently called for a recovery of love. But what do we mean when we speak of love today? Love's Enlightenment examines four key conceptions of other-directedness that transformed the meaning of love and helped to shape the way we understand love today: Hume's theory of humanity, Rousseau's theory of pity, Smith's theory of sympathy, and Kant's theory of love. It argues that these four Enlightenment theories are united by a shared effort to develop a moral psychology that can provide both justificatory and motivational grounds for concern for others in the absence of recourse to theological or transcendental categories. In this sense, each theory represents an effort to redefine the love of others that used to be known as caritas or agape - a redefinition that came with benefits and costs that have yet to be fully appreciated.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Hume on humanity; 3. Rousseau on pity; 4. Smith on sympathy; 5. Kant on love.

Review

'Hanley's in-depth analysis of ancient and early modern conceptions of love adds significantly to the literature on the ethical and political dimensions of love and scholarship regarding the role that other-directed capacities such as empathy, sympathy, and charity could play in tempering the egocentricism that characterizes political, economic, and social relations.' Choice'Ryan Patrick Hanley's book offers a carefully researched, interesting, and original survey of how four Enlightenment philosophers transformed the traditional Christian ideal of what is variously called agape, caritas, or neighborly love.' Deborah Boyle, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'This is a well argued, analytically incisive, informative and important book.' Rebecca Kingston, The Review of Politics'Love's Enlightenment remains a searching and rewarding study of how returning to some of the eighteenth-century's finest philosophers can enrichen our theorizing of other-directed sentiments today.' Robin Douglass, Journal of the History of Philosophy

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This book examines the transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.

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'Hanley's in-depth analysis of ancient and early modern conceptions of love adds significantly to the literature on the ethical and political dimensions of love and scholarship regarding the role that other-directed capacities such as empathy, sympathy, and charity could play in tempering the egocentricism that characterizes political, economic, and social relations.' Choice

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This book examines the transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.

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Love's Enlightenment examines the key concepts central to today's debates over the nature and political significance of love. It will interest both specialists in the history of philosophy and scholars in fields ranging from political science and philosophy to psychology and religion who are interested in the meaning of love today.

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Love's Enlightenment examines the key concepts central to today's debates over the nature and political significance of love. It will interest both specialists in the history of philosophy and scholars in fields ranging from political science and philosophy to psychology and religion who are interested in the meaning of love today.

Details ISBN1107105226 Author Ryan Patrick Hanley Publisher Cambridge University Press ISBN-10 1107105226 ISBN-13 9781107105225 Format Hardcover Pages 192 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Rethinking Charity in Modernity Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 320.01 Year 2017 Illustrations black & white illustrations Media Book Publication Date 2017-03-30 Affiliation Marquette University, Wisconsin Short Title Love's Enlightenment Language English UK Release Date 2017-03-30 AU Release Date 2017-03-30 NZ Release Date 2017-03-30 Alternative 9781107512450 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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