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Under what circumstances can love generate moral reasons for action? Are there morally appropriate ways to love? Can an occurrence of love or a failure to love constitute a moral failure? Is it better to love morally good people?

This volume explores the moral dimensions of love through the lenses of political philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. It attempts to discern how various social norms affect our experience and understanding of love, how love, relates to other affective states such as emotions and desires, and how love influences and is influenced by reason. What love is affects what love ought to be. Conversely, our ideas of what love ought to be partly determined by our conception of what love is.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
The Moral Psychology of Love (or How to Think About Love): Introduction
Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogaard
SECTION I LOVE: APPROACHES AND META-QUESTIONS
1 Don't Ask If Love Is Moral
Ronald de Sousa
2 The Neurobiology of Love
Donatella Marazziti and Alessandra Della Vecchia
3 The Good and Bad of Love and Hate
Katherine Aumer and Michael A. Erickson
4 The Role of Ideals in Intimate Relationships
Robert J. Sternberg
SECTION II RELATIONSHIPS AND NORMS
5 Love for One? Romantic Love and Altruism in Pair-bonds
Bianca P. Acevedo
6 “I Am Glad That My Partner Is Happy with Her Lover”: On Jealousy, and Compersion
Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
7 Multiple Loves and Shaped Selves
Luke Brunning

8 Being Trans, Being Loved: Clashing Identities and the Limits of Love
Gen Eickers
SECTION III LOVE AND MORALITY
9 The Possibility of a Duty to Love
Lotte Spreeuwenberg
10 Love and Integrity
Raja Halwani
11 Vices of Friendship
Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogaard
12 Internal Bleeding: How

Product details

Published Mar 28 2022
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9781538151013
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 2 b/w illustrations;
Series Moral Psychology of the Emotions
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Arina Pismenny

Anthology Editor

Berit Brogaard

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