Theme:
Perennial philosophical questions about love remain unresolved. Is love an emotion, a mode of willing, or a special kind of cognition? Is love under our control, and can we be evaluated for it? Is love rational, or merely an expression of arbitrary passions? Is love a moral virtue, or a more mixed blessing? Sam begins to sort through these difficult questions by offering an account of love that rejects the common idea that love for persons is distinct from love for other kinds of objects, and that distinguishes love from other psychological phenomena via its connection to the perception of meaning.
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