- Love: The Basic Questions
- Romantic Love for a Reason
- Parental Love
- Love and Animals
- The Ordinary Concept of True Love
- Love, Value, and Reasons
- Love as “Something in Between”
- Is Love an Emotion?
- Love as a Disposition
- Love and Evolution
- Love and Time
- Love and Caring
- Love and Autonomy
- Love and Economics
- Love, Morality, and Alienation
- Plato, Socrates, and Love
- Aristotle on the Love of Friends
- Kierkegaard on Love
- Schopenhauer on Love
- Simone de Beauvoir on Love
- Merleau-Ponty on Love
- Iris Murdoch on Love
- Love and the Law
- Love and Sex
- Love, Jealousy, and Compersion
- Love and Knowledge
- Love and Literature
- Love and Religion
- Love and Freedom
- Love and the Rationality of Grief
- Love and Enhancement Technology
Abstract and Keywords
It is quite clear that love plays an absolutely crucial role in Iris Murdoch’s philosophy. This chapter argues that Murdoch, in contrast to much contemporary philosophy, does not so much develop a theory of love that explains why and in what sense love is good or bad for philosophy. Murdoch’s problem is not the question whether one ought to bring the concept of love into other regions of thought, but to make clear that love is always already there. Murdoch is not asking us to broaden our concept of morality (or knowledge, or art) in such a way that love can be included. Murdoch should rather be seen as inquiring into, and questioning, an exclusion. She is asking us to pay attention to love and to think about why it has been blotted out, and by which means.
Keywords: love, Eros, vision, knowledge, good, attention, moral, perfectionism
Niklas Forsberg, Uppsala University, Department of Philosophy
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- Love: The Basic Questions
- Romantic Love for a Reason
- Parental Love
- Love and Animals
- The Ordinary Concept of True Love
- Love, Value, and Reasons
- Love as “Something in Between”
- Is Love an Emotion?
- Love as a Disposition
- Love and Evolution
- Love and Time
- Love and Caring
- Love and Autonomy
- Love and Economics
- Love, Morality, and Alienation
- Plato, Socrates, and Love
- Aristotle on the Love of Friends
- Kierkegaard on Love
- Schopenhauer on Love
- Simone de Beauvoir on Love
- Merleau-Ponty on Love
- Iris Murdoch on Love
- Love and the Law
- Love and Sex
- Love, Jealousy, and Compersion
- Love and Knowledge
- Love and Literature
- Love and Religion
- Love and Freedom
- Love and the Rationality of Grief
- Love and Enhancement Technology