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.
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