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1The Significance of Alcibiades’ Speech in Plato’s SymposiumAnalytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 34 (2): 30-35. 2013.Critics of Plato’s theory of love have maintained that he misrepresents the love of persons, treating them merely as a means to the love of the Good or as an image of the Idea in them, rather than the person herself. Other critics claim that Plato sees love as a purely acquisitive and egocentric desire that is fundamentally at odds with an ethical love such as Biblical agape. I will argue that the second of these criticisms is just wrong, and the first, overstated. Regarding the egocentric thesi…Read more
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40The Meaning of ‘Love’Philosophy and Theology 12 (2): 245-254. 2000.I discuss the meaning of the concept “love” arguing that it denotes neither a single, uniform phenomenon nor a hodgepodge of unrelated feelings, attitudes, etc., but three distinct phenomena that nonetheless share several common features. These three phenomena I designate “care-love,” “end-love,” and “union-love.” After a brief discussion of each of these kinds of love, I argue that while these three loves have over-lapping features, they may also sometimes conflict with one another or lead to c…Read more
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9The Meaning of ‘Love’Philosophy and Theology 12 (2): 245-254. 2000.I discuss the meaning of the concept “love” arguing that it denotes neither a single, uniform phenomenon nor a hodgepodge of unrelated feelings, attitudes, etc., but three distinct phenomena that nonetheless share several common features. These three phenomena I designate “care-love,” “end-love,” and “union-love.” After a brief discussion of each of these kinds of love, I argue that while these three loves have over-lapping features, they may also sometimes conflict with one another or lead to c…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Asian Philosophy |
Philosophy, Misc |
Philosophy of Religion |
Religious Topics, Misc |