The Reasons of Love
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Description
In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Through caring, we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with stable ambitions and concerns; it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we lead our lives. Frankfurt goes on to explain that the most important form of caring is love, a nonvoluntary, disinterested concern for the flourishing of what is loved. And he contends that the purest form of love is self-love. This sounds perverse, but self-love--as distinct from self-indulgence--is at heart a disinterested concern for whatever it is that the person loves. The most elementary form of self-love is nothing more than the desire of a person to love. Insofar as this is true, self-love is simply a commitment to finding meaning in our lives.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 112
- Release Date:
- 2019-07-16
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07-16
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Languages:
-
Original:
English
- ISBN10:
- 0691191476
- ISBN13:
- 9780691191478
- Weight:
- 114 g
- Height:
- 139 cm
- Width:
- 216 cm
- Thickness:
- 12 cm
