Two competing accounts of love have become familiar in recent philosophical treatments of
the subject. On one account, love is a response of the lover to qualities he perceives and�…

R ecently there has been a resurgence of philosophical interest in love, resulting in a wide
variety of accounts. Central to most accounts of love is the notion of caring about your�…

At first glance, love seems to be a psychological state for which there are normative reasons:
a state that, if all goes well, is an appropriate or fitting response to something independent of�…

If he chooses, the reader may use this collection casually, as the opportunity to see for
himself what a number of experienced and thoughtful writers have found to be the real�…

Xf someone I love romantically loves me back, then that's a reason for me to feel good about
myself. Among the most valu? able of rewards that I can gain from romantic love is the�…

Recent attempts to view personal love as a response to value fail to capture the lover's
distinctive compulsion to intimacy with the beloved. Their common mistake is to hold that the�…

On a naive reading of the major accounts of love, love is a kind of mental event. A recent
trend in the philosophical literature on love is to reject these accounts on the basis that they�…

Current analytical philosophies of romantic love tend to identify the essence of such love
with one specific element, such as concern for the beloved person, valuing the beloved�…

Concepts like love, which the people use in describing, explaining and ordering the
personal relations of themselves and others, have received scant attention in the recent�…

" To claim that Works of Love is an important philosophical essay is to assume hazardous
burden of proof. The book's title is an allusion to the Bible's injunction that we should love�…