Книга: Ronald De Sousa «Love»

Love

Серия: "A Very Short Introduction"

Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes. Why should this be? This Very Short Introduction explores this and other puzzling questions. Do we love someone for their virtue, their beauty, or their moral or other qualities? Are love's characteristic desires altruistic or selfish? Are there duties of love? What do the sciences - neuroscience, evolutionary and social psychology, and anthropology - tell us about love? Many of the answers we give to such questions are determined not so much by the facts of human nature as by the ideology of love. Ronald de Sousa considers some of the many paradoxes raised by love, looking at the different kinds of love - affections, affiliation, philia, storage, agape, but focusses on eros, or romantic love. He considers whether our conventional beliefs about love and sex are deeply irrational and argues that alternative conceptions of love and sex, although hard to formulate and live by, may be worth striving for. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Издательство: "Oxford University Press" (2015)

ISBN: 978-0-19-966384-2

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Ronald de Sousa

Ronald Bon de Sousa Pernes (born 1940) is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto which he joined in 1966. He is best-known for his work in philosophy of emotions, and has also made contributions to philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology. He has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2005.

de Sousa possesses both UK and Canadian citizenship. Educated in Switzerland and England, he took his B.A. at New College, Oxford University in 1962, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1966. He is married to Jingsong Ma and has a daughter named Qingting (dragonfly in Mandarin) or Ava.

Books

* 'Why think? Evolution and the Rational Mind' (2007) ISBN 978-0-19-518985-8
* 'Évolution et Rationalité' (2004) ISBN 9782130535300
* 'The Rationality of Emotion' (1987) ISBN 0262540576 (German translation 1997; Chinese translation 2006)

Источник: Ronald de Sousa

См. также в других словарях:

  • love — love …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • Love — (l[u^]v), n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh to be lustful. See {Lief}.] 1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; pre[ e]minent… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Love — (engl. Liebe) bezeichnet: Love (Band), Rockband der 1960er und 70er Jahre Love (Lied), litauischer Beitrag zum Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Love (Stephen King), Roman von Stephen King Love (The Beatles Album), Musikalbum der Beatles Love (The… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Love Me Do — Single par The Beatles extrait de l’album Please Please Me Face A Love Me Do Face B P.S. I Love You Sortie …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Love —     Love (Theological Virtue)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Love (Theological Virtue)     The third and greatest of the Divine virtues enumerated by St. Paul (1 Cor., xiii, 13), usually called charity, defined: a divinely infused habit, inclining …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • LOVE — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Love signifie amour en anglais. Ce nom peut désigner : Sommaire 1 Cinéma 2 Musique …   Wikipédia en Français

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