The idea of a duty to love

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-22

  Liao, S Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34548324720     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10790-007-9013-8     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. See William Newton-Smith, "A Conceptual Investigation of Love," in Alan Montefiore ed., Philosophy and Person Relations: An Anglo-French Study (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973);
2. Gabrielle Taylor, "Love," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 76 (1976), p. 151;
3. Robert Brown, Analyzing Love (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
4. See Gilbert Ryle, "Feelings," The Philosophical Quarterly 1, No. 3 (1951);
5. Amélie Oksenberg Rorty ed., Explaining Emotions (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1980).
6. Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Mary Gregor (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 161;
7. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans. H. J. Paton (N. Y.: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 67.
8. Richard Taylor, Good and Evil (New York: Macmillan, 1970), pp. 252-253.
9. See Stephen Leighton, "Unfelt Feelings in Pain and Emotion," Southern Journal of Philosophy 24, No. 1 (1986).
10. Joseph Raz, Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 11.
11. See Mike Martin, "Love's Constancy," Philosophy 68 (1993), p. 65.
12. See William James, "What is an Emotion?", in K. Dunlap ed., The Emotions (New York: Hafner, 1967), pp. 11-13, 15-21, 25-26.
13. See B. F. Skinner and J. G. Holland, The Analysis of Behavior (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961), pp. 213-214.
14. Robert C. Solomon, "The Logic of Emotion," Nous 11 (1977), p. 187.
15. Stuart Hampshire, "Sincerity and Single-Mindedness," in Freedom of the Mind and Other Essays (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), p. 239.
16. See Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970), pp. 17-18.
17. See Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. W. D. Ross (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), bk II, ch. 1, 1103a33-b25.
18. Augustine, De Cura Pro Mortuis, trans. H. Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 5.7.
19. See Bernard Williams, "Deciding to Believe," in Problems of the Self (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1973).
20. See Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, op. cit.
21. Michael Stocker, "The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories," The Journal of Philosophy 73 (1976), p. 462.
22. Bernard Williams, "Persons, Character, and Morality," in Moral Luck (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 18.
23. See Barbara Herman, "Rules, Motives, and Helping Actions," Philosophical Studies 45, No. 3 (1984);
24. Justin Oakley, Morality and the Emotions (London: Routledge, 1992).
25. I would like to thank Jim Griffin, Nick Bunnin, the late Geoffrey Marshall, David Archard, Joseph Shaw, Douglas Wolfe, Karin Boxer, Wibke Gruetjen, the late Bernard Williams, Justin Oakley, Julie Tannenbaum, Thomas Magnell, an anonymous referee of the Journal of Value Inquiry, and audiences at the Oxford Political Theory Seminar, the Queen's College Symposium, and the Joint Session of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for their helpful comments and discussions on earlier versions of this paper. Thanks are also due to the Greenwall Fellowship Program at Johns Hopkins University and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University for generous research support.