Saunders, J orcid.org/0000-0003-1290-275X (2018) Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26 (4). pp. 719-737. ISSN 0960-8788
Abstract
McTaggart takes love seriously. He rejects rival accounts that look to reduce love to pleasure, moral approbation or a fitting response to someone’s qualities. In addition, he thinks that love reveals something about the structure of the universe, and that in absolute reality, we could all love each other. In this paper, I follow McTaggart in his rejection of rival accounts of love, but distance myself from his own account of love in absolute reality. I argue that in claiming that we could all love each other, he fails to adequately account for an important part of the phenomena of love, namely chemistry.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 BSHP. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal for the History of Philosophy on 28 November 2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1393617. |
Keywords: | McTaggart, love, chemistry, British idealism, emotions |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2017 11:56 |
Last Modified: | 28 May 2019 00:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09608788.2017.1393617 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124721 |