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Love: A Very Short Introduction [#415]
Love: A Very Short Introduction [#415]
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ひとことで「愛」といっても、さまざまな愛の形があります。愛情、友情、愛好、家族愛、神の愛、恋愛…。愛と心酔、愛と欲望は何が違うのでしょうか。恋愛至上主義は時に凶悪な犯罪さえ正当化しかねない風潮がある一方で、モノガミーが愛の形の全てではなく、ポリアモリーの実践者もいます。かくも複雑な「愛」を科学的、哲学的に考察します。
 

  • Provides a lucid introduction to the basic philosophical problems about love
  • Considers the notion that love is not just an emotion, but something much more complex
  • Looks at the distinctions between different kinds of love - affection, affiliation, philia, storge, agape, before focussing on eros: erotic or 'romantic' love
  • An informative summary of the latest science on love, making clear what lies behind distinctions such as love and infatuation; love and lust, as well as ways of classifying different types of love and their psychological origins
  • Examines different ideologies of love, distinguishing between the ideals and practices of monogamism, swinging, and polyamory

   
Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes. Why should this be? This Very Short Introduction explores this and other puzzling questions. Do we love someone for their virtue, their beauty, or their moral or other qualities? Are love's characteristic desires altruistic or selfish? Are there duties of love? What do the sciences - neuroscience, evolutionary and social psychology, and anthropology - tell us about love?
 
Many of the answers we give to such questions are determined not so much by the facts of human nature as by the ideology of love. Ronald de Sousa considers some of the many paradoxes raised by love, looking at the different kinds of love - affections, affiliation, philia, storage, agape, but focusses on eros, or romantic love. He considers whether our conventional beliefs about love and sex are deeply irrational and argues that alternative conceptions of love and sex, although hard to formulate and live by, may be worth striving for. 

目次: 

1: Puzzles
2: Perspectives
3: Desire
4: Reasons
5: Science
6: Utopia
Further reading
Index

著者について: 

Ronald de Sousa, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Toronto
 
Ronald de Sousa is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has taught at University of Toronto, Canada since 1966. He is the author of The Rationality of Emotion (MIT 1987) , Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind (OUP 2007, 2011), and Emotional Truth (OUP 2011). He has also published over a hundred articles and book chapters, and taught and lectured in some twenty countries. His research interests have been mainly in areas of philosophy that seek to understand the mind: emotion, evolutionary theory, cognitive science, aesthetics, ethics, and sex.

商品情報

ISBN : 9780199663842

著者: 
Ronald De Sousa
ページ
152 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2015年12月
シリーズ
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Love: A Very Short Introduction [#415]

Love: A Very Short Introduction [#415]

Love: A Very Short Introduction [#415]