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'''Philosophy of love''' is the field of [[social philosophy]] and [[ethics]] that attempts to [[explanation|explain]] the nature of [[love]].<ref name="Singer2009">{{cite book|author=Irving Singer|title=Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4o3aGVUb85gC|accessdate=14 September 2012|date=31 March 2009|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-19574-4}}</ref> The philosophical investigation of love includes the tasks of distinguishing between the various kinds of personal love, asking if and how love is / can be [[justification|justified]], asking what the [[value (ethics)|value]] of love is, and what impact love has on the [[autonomy]] of both the lover and the beloved.
'''Philosophy of love''' is the field of [[social philosophy]] and [[ethics]] that attempts to [[explanation|explain]] the nature of [[love]].<ref name="Singer2009">{{cite book|author=Irving Singer|title=Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4o3aGVUb85gC|accessdate=14 September 2012|date=31 March 2009|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-19574-4}}</ref> The philosophical investigation of love includes the tasks of distinguishing between the various kinds of personal love, asking if and how love is / can be [[justification|justified]], asking what the [[value (ethics)|value]] of love is, and what impact love has on the [[autonomy]] of both the lover and the beloved.


There are many different theories that attempt to [[explanation|explain]] what [[love]] is, and what function it serves. It would be very difficult to explain love to a hypothetical person who had not himself or herself experienced love or being loved. In fact, to such a person love would appear to be quite strange if not outright irrational behavior. Among the prevailing types of theories that attempt to account for the existence of love there are: [[psychology|psychological]] theories, the vast majority of which consider love to be very healthy behavior; there are [[Evolutionary theory|evolutionary theories]] that hold that love is part of the process of [[natural selection]]; there are [[Spiritualism (beliefs)|spiritual theories]] that may, for instance consider love to be a gift from God; there are also theories that consider love to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a [[mysticism|mystical experience]].
There are many different theories that attempt to [[explanation|explain]] what [[love]] is CHRIS LOVES VIVIAN, and what function it serves. It would be very difficult to explain love to a hypothetical person who had not himself or herself experienced love or being loved. In fact, to such a person love would appear to be quite strange if not outright irrational behavior. Among the prevailing types of theories that attempt to account for the existence of love there are: [[psychology|psychological]] theories, the vast majority of which consider love to be very healthy behavior; there are [[Evolutionary theory|evolutionary theories]] that hold that love is part of the process of [[natural selection]]; there are [[Spiritualism (beliefs)|spiritual theories]] that may, for instance consider love to be a gift from God; there are also theories that consider love to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a [[mysticism|mystical experience]].


== Philosophers of love ==
== Philosophers of love ==

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Philosophy of love is the field of social philosophy and ethics that attempts to explain the nature of love.[1] The philosophical investigation of love includes the tasks of distinguishing between the various kinds of personal love, asking if and how love is / can be justified, asking what the value of love is, and what impact love has on the autonomy of both the lover and the beloved.

There are many different theories that attempt to explain what love is CHRIS LOVES VIVIAN, and what function it serves. It would be very difficult to explain love to a hypothetical person who had not himself or herself experienced love or being loved. In fact, to such a person love would appear to be quite strange if not outright irrational behavior. Among the prevailing types of theories that attempt to account for the existence of love there are: psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider love to be very healthy behavior; there are evolutionary theories that hold that love is part of the process of natural selection; there are spiritual theories that may, for instance consider love to be a gift from God; there are also theories that consider love to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

Philosophers of love

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References

  1. ^ Irving Singer (31 March 2009). Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19574-4. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  2. ^ Linnell Secomb (1 June 2007). Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2368-6. Retrieved 14 September 2012.

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