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Love, Friendship, and the Self - Intimacy, Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons (Paperback)
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Love, Friendship, and the Self - Intimacy, Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons (Paperback)
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Recent Western thought has consistently emphasized the
individualistic strand in our understanding of persons at the
expense of the social strand. Thus, it is generally thought that
persons are self-determining and autonomous, where these are
understood to be capacities we exercise most fully on our own,
apart from others, whose influence on us tends to undermine that
autonomy. Love, Friendship, and the Self argues that we must reject
a strongly individualistic conception of persons if we are to make
sense of significant interpersonal relationships and the importance
they can have in our lives. It presents a new account of love as
intimate identification and of friendship as a kind of plural
agency, in each case grounding and analyzing these notions in terms
of interpersonal emotions. At the center of this account is an
analysis of how our emotional connectedness with others is
essential to our very capacities for autonomy and
self-determination: we are rational and autonomous only because of
and through our inherently social nature. By focusing on the role
that relationships of love and friendship have both in the initial
formation of our selves and in the on-going development and
maturation of adult persons, Helm significantly alters our
understanding of persons and the kind of psychology we persons have
as moral and social beings.
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