| Συγγραφέας: Aaron Smuts 
 
 Aaron Smuts:   In Defense of the No-Reasons View of Love    (pdf, 35 pages)
 
 I  argue  that  although  we  can  try  to  explain  why  we  love,  we  can  never  justify our love. Love is neither based on reasons, responsive to reasons, nor can it be assessed  for  normative  reasons.  Love  can  be  odd,  unfortunate,  fortuitous,  or even sadly lacking, but it can never be fitting or unfitting. We may have reasons to  act  on  our  love,  but  we  cannot  justify  our  loving  feelings.  Shakespeare's Bottom  is  right:  "Reason  and  love  keep  little  company  together  now-a-days." Indeed,  they  keep  none  and  the  never  kept  any:  there  are  no  justifying  reasons for love. |