Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as
frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In
"Love's Vision," Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding
love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is
guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes
rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status,
acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart,
a moral phenomenon--an emotion that demands empathy and calls us
away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither
wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor
profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato's
Symposium, love is "something in between."
Jollimore makes his case by proposing a "vision" view of love,
according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves
bestowing charitable attention on a loved one. This view recognizes
the truth in the cliche "love is blind," but holds that love's
blindness does not undermine the idea that love is guided by
reason. Reasons play an important role in love even if they rest on
facts that are not themselves rationally justifiable.
Filled with illuminating examples from literature, "Love's
Vision" is an original examination of a subject of vital
philosophical and human concern."
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