Is Love Based On Reasons?

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European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Vol. 12 No. 1, 2016.

Original scientific paper

Is Love Based On Reasons?

Dalia Drai

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APA 6th Edition

Drai, D. (2016). Is Love Based On Reasons?. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 12 (1), 5-26. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/175166

MLA 8th Edition

Drai, Dalia. "Is Love Based On Reasons?." European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 1, 2016, pp. 5-26. https://hrcak.srce.hr/175166. Accessed 4 May 2024.

Chicago 17th Edition

Drai, Dalia. "Is Love Based On Reasons?." European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 12, no. 1 (2016): 5-26. https://hrcak.srce.hr/175166

Harvard

Drai, D. (2016). 'Is Love Based On Reasons?', European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 12(1), pp. 5-26. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/175166 (Accessed 04 May 2024)

Vancouver

Drai D. Is Love Based On Reasons?. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2024 May 04];12(1):5-26. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/175166

IEEE

D. Drai, "Is Love Based On Reasons?", European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, vol.12, no. 1, pp. 5-26, 2016. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/175166. [Accessed: 04 May 2024]

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to understand what is involved in the claim that a mental state in general and love in particular, is based on reasons. Love, like many other mental states, can be evaluated in various ways: it can be considered appropriate, deserved, enriching, perverse, destructive etc. but this does not mean that love is based on reasons. In this paper I present and defend a test that a mental state has to satisfy if it is to count as based on reasons. This test will be used to construct a new argument in favour of Frankfurt's position that love is not based on reasons.

Keywords

love; reasons; Frankfurt; Kolodny

Hrčak ID:

175166

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/175166

Publication date:

17.2.2017.

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