Love, Friendship, and the Self

Bennett Helm presents a reexamination of our common understanding of ourselves as persons in light of the phenomena of love and friendship. He argues that the individualism that is implicit in that understanding cannot be sustained if we are to understand the kind of distinctively personal intimacy that love and friendship essentially involve.

...detailed and compelling arguments...a convincing and engaging account of love tied to conceptions of personhood and the morally good life.

Autorentext
Bennett W. Helm is Professor of Philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania. His philosophical interests center around understanding the place of emotions and caring in our concept of a person. His work has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Inhalt

• 1: Introduction

• Part I Caring

• 2: Agency, Emotions, and the Problem of Import

• 3: Caring about Others

• Part II Loving

• 4: Values: Loving Oneself

• 5: Love As Intimate Identification

• 6: Justification and Non-Fungibility of Love

• Part III Friendship and the Self

• 7: Paternalistic Love and External Reasons

• 8: Friends Are Other Selves

• Postscript

• Bibliography

• Index