Love

I'm in Love! I'm a Believer!: Structures of Belief in Jonathan Glazer's Birth

by Christine Evans

Engineering love

by Brian Earp

Savulescu, J. and Sandberg, A. (2012). Love machine: Engineering lifelong romance. New Scientist, 2864, 28-29.

Essay partially adapted from Earp, B. D., Sandberg, A., and Savulescu, J. (2012). Natural selection, childrearing, and the ethics of marriage (and divorce): Building a case for the neuroenhancement of human relationships. Philosophy & Technology, forthcoming [see "profile" box in article].

Available at the New Scientist website: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428646.200-love-machine-engineering-lifelong-romance.html

New Scientist BIG IDEA section, May 2012.

With break-up and divorce a major part of modern life, it looks... more New Scientist BIG IDEA section, May 2012.

With break-up and divorce a major part of modern life, it looks like we may be outliving our inborn capacity to love. But there could be a way to outwit evolution and make love last.

Also available at New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428646.200-love-machine-engineering-lifelong-romance.html.

A comparative discussion of computer mediate communication and face-to-face interpersonal communication

by sssaam matthews

2010

This comparative discussion address' how interpersonal communication is transmitted through computer mediated... more This comparative discussion address' how interpersonal communication is transmitted through computer mediated communication (CMC). The treatment will be focused on identifying the consequential effects of CMC on two relationship types: friendship and love.

Addendum - More Seminal Ethics Implications

by Mark Singer

Tandem works include: "Seminal Ethics," "Kant Concept Art," "More Seminal Ethics Implications" - also on this site.

This paper includes the "Possibility Implications" of the Kantian, Machiavellian, and Nietzschean Ethical Standards.

Amar ou partir. Notas sobre a política de Dido and Aeneas

by João Pedro Cachopo

Published in "Didi and Aeneas / Henry Purcell", TNSC, 2009 [in Portuguese].

To me, Love is…: Analysis of Student Attitudes and Experience of Romantic Love

by Andreja Bartolac

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Knowing about Right and Wrong: Why Is It Wrong to Kill Innocent People? International Journal of Decision Ethics, 7.2 (2011).

by W Julian Korab-Karpowicz

In this article I challenge the positivist view that ethical statements are merely an expression of our emotions or... more In this article I challenge the positivist view that ethical statements are merely an expression of our emotions or preferences. I consider a moral statement, “Killing innocent civilians is wrong,” and argue that such a statement is a truthful moral norm. I show that what is fundamental to agreement in the realm of both facts and morals is a commonly shared attitude that determines human relatedness to the world. Scientific knowledge is a partial knowledge based on indifference, the state of mind that constitutes scientific attitude. However, knowledge in morals does not presuppose indifference, but love. Once we accept that our thoughts and feelings are not incommunicable, we can arrive at inter-subjective and non-objective moral knowledge which results from our recognition of others as persons and our affective engagement with the world.

“Communicate, communicate, communicate” - building ethical subjectivities within polyamory

by Daniel Cardoso

Paper presented at the Sexual Cultures Conference, London, 2012

Joint Panel with Meg Barker, Christian Klesse and Jamie Heckert

Though explicitly non-monogamous relationships are anything but new, the last 20 years have seen the rise and... more Though explicitly non-monogamous relationships are anything but new, the last 20 years have seen the rise and development of another identity: polyamory. This new identity brings with it a focus on feelings and emotions, and seeks to build itself around the ethical notions of frankness and communication. But what is frank communication, how is it supposed to be deployed and, most of all, how does it work in constituting an ethical practice and subjectivity? From the analysis of the conversations on the oldest mailing list on polyamory, we consider how this relates to Foucault’s writing of the self as an ethopoietic practice based on parrhesia - the courage of truth. By focusing on feelings, polyamorous subjects seek to improve themselves and be more autonomous by being able to better control and modify those same feelings.

Polyamory awareness-raising: An auto-ethnographic account of a round-table on polyamory and lesbianism

by Daniel Cardoso

Paper presented at the Sexual Cultures Conference, London, 2012

Co-authored with: Inês Rôlo, Salomé Coelho

Stemming from the auto-ethnographic and personal recounting of a round-table organized by a lesbian-focused activist... more Stemming from the auto-ethnographic and personal recounting of a round-table organized by a lesbian-focused activist group in Lisbon, Portugal, the authors reflect on the intersections between doing research, spreading that research, doing activism and working with / listening to sexual minorities as a way of critically involving the LGBT community and their concerns in the scientific process. As we’ll see, conflicting political and identity agendas might create tension between different minorities, and even the reinstatement of (homo-)normativity. We claim that only through debate, exposure and recognition (which mixes research, scientific dissemination and activism) can we think «about an issue in a way that takes account of the perspectives of others» (Young, 2000), but that the modes of performing debate also need to be critically reflected upon, keeping in sight the ethical concern for the intimate citizenship (Plummer, 1994) of those represented (and of those absent).

When soft voices die: auditory verbal hallucinations and a four letter word (love)

by Simon McCarthy-Jones

Co-authored with Prof Larry Davidson, Yale University.

Love and Teenage Pregnancy in a Northern Alberta Oil Town

by Laura Sikstrom

Unpublished, undergraduate honours thesis
BA, Mcgill University, April 2000

More Seminal Ethics Implications

by Mark Singer

Tandem works include: "Seminal Ethics," "Kant Concept Art," "Addendum - More Seminal Ethics Implications" - also on this site.

These implications are: moral, epistemology, love, happiness, time and space, psychological, art, education, medical, economic, war, capital punishment, and abortion.

"Addendum - More Seminal Ethics Implications" includes additional categories.

La St Valentin au pays d’al-Azhar: éléments d’ethnographie de l’amour et du sentiment amoureux au Caire

by Aymon Kreil

Loving Criticism: A Spiritual Philosophy of Social Change

by Sharon Doetsch-Kidder

Forthcoming in Feminist Studies

Many activists and intellectuals have been doing the work of integrating spirit into social change, paying attention... more Many activists and intellectuals have been doing the work of integrating spirit into social change, paying attention to not just when and where but how we enter into discourse and social interaction, so that our work reflects our best values rather than the negative emotions often generated in response to conflict. In examples of how antiracist feminist intellectuals and activists attend to spirit, I find lessons that can guide us toward what I call “loving criticism.” This essay revisits the roots of differential consciousness in intuition, feeling, and spiritual knowledge and describes the principles – spiritual as well as ethical – that guide its praxis. I meditate here on five aspects of loving criticism found in intersectional feminist writing and activism: loving criticism honors our roots, accepts our shared humanity, accepts our power to change our lives and the world, faces conflict with kindness, and nourishes us through positive action. Loving criticism seeks understanding of others on their own terms, along with an understanding of larger structures that work on and through individual lives. As we trust in our own resources and nourish ourselves by focusing on love and possibilities, we find ways to survive and energy to change the world.

La sociologia e l’amore come agape. Intervista ad Axel Honneth

by Filipe Campello

An Interview with Axel Honneth on love and social relations. A first part appeared in Italian in this number dedicated to the subject “affective action: the forms of love in the social sciences”.

Loving Couples for a Modern Nation: A New Family Model in Late-Nineteenth-Century Japan

by Jean-Michel Butel

english and more complete version of a former paper in french

This paper will examine the debates surrounding the couple and conjugal love which took place in the periodical Jogaku... more This paper will examine the debates surrounding the couple and conjugal love which took place in the periodical Jogaku Zasshi (The Woman’s Magazine) throughout the last third of the nineteenth century. Run by Iwamoto Yoshiharu (1863-1942), this magazine appears to have been the place of reflection on the specificities of Western love, the poor nature of the pre-modern types of love and the need to transpose this particular kind of love – the only one befitting a civilised nation – to Japan. At stake here was the establishment of an ideal model for the modern couple. Iwamoto was not seeking a revolution. Yet in fighting for a new family model based on equality between husband and wife, he laid the groundwork for the changes that Japan would undergo throughout the entire twentieth century. His modernity competed with the modernity of the editors of the first Civil Code, over which it would triumph a century later.

The Relational Theory of the Holy Trinity

by Marat Dakunin

noted circa 1996, first published on author's blog in 2008

Holy Trinity, theory of Holy Trinity, christianity, dogma, theology, literature, poetry, para-science, God the Father,... more Holy Trinity, theory of Holy Trinity, christianity, dogma, theology, literature, poetry, para-science, God the Father, Christ, Son of God, the Holy Spirit, perfect love, love, relation, ego

Violencia Social en nombre del amor

by Maria Amelia Viteri

Suplemento especial Revista CartóNPiedra,  Diario El Telégrafo, Quito, Ecuador.  Febrero 12, 2012

«Eunuchi per il regno dei cieli»? Amore e sessualità dal Nuovo Testamento al primo cristianesimo

by Lorenzo Perrone

«Eunuchi per il regno dei cieli»? Amore e sessualità dal Nuovo Testamento al primo cristianesimo, in “Cristianesimo nella storia” 23 (2002) 281-304.

Reprinted in: BIBLIA. Associazione laica di cultura biblica, Eros e Bibbia, a cura di P. CAPELLI, Morcelliana, Brescia 2003, pp. 107-132.

IN THE FLOWERY HANDS OF FLAMBOYANT APHRODITE

by Jacques Coulardeau

Of course Venus. It has to be, in the XVIth century. But Aphrodite all the same. Adonis is one of the three major young teenagers transformed into flowers. He ranks well next to Narcissus and Hyacinth. And his flower, the anemone, has become the symbol of lovesick love and perilous hunting. Shakespeare in his narrative poem Venus and Adonis partially moves the tale from its purely Greek context to a more Hellenistic or even universal setting. The Renaissance is imposing its toll on the artist. In 1593, Marlowe writes Dido, Queen of Carthage. We will use the play. But, moreover, this period sees the triumph of the baroque influence in arts, an influence that plunges roots in the fifteen century (The Old Hall Manuscript, for instance) and in the Italian Renaissance with Monteverdi and his school, coming to its acme with the Vespro Della Beate Vergine.

Working on this particular poem by Shakespeare opens many doors to older traditions in poetry and in ideology. Yet... more Working on this particular poem by Shakespeare opens many doors to older traditions in poetry and in ideology. Yet Shakespeare is a great modernist in the extreme subtlety with which he uses the binary music of this tradition, introduces many variations and dares to propose incursions into a ternary style. He has both feet in the binary tradition, but he already has part of his brain, at least, in the subsequent greater freedom that will develop in English poetry later. This is why he is a great poet. He can totally integrate, and yet develop and renew a tradition into an opening that leads to further developments.