Love, friendship, and the self: intimacy, identification, and the social nature of persons

Bennett Helm presents a reexamination of our common understanding of ourselves as persons in light of the phenomena of love and friendship. He argues that the individualism that is implicit in that understanding cannot be sustained if we are to understand the kind of distinctively personal intimacy that love and friendship essentially involve. INDICE: 1: Introduction; Part I Caring; 2: Agency, Emotions, and the Problem of Import; 3: Caring about Others; Part II Loving; 4: Values: Loving Oneself; 5: Love As Intimate Identification; 6: Justification and Non-Fungibilityof Love; Part III Friendship and the Self; 7: Paternalistic Love and ExternalReasons; 8: Friends Are Other Selves; Postscript; Bibliography; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956789-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 07/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés