The Rationality of Love: Benevolence and Complacence in Kant and Hutcheson

Kant claims that love ‘is a matter of feeling,’ which has led many of his interpreters to argue that he conceives of love as solely a matter of feeling, that is, as a purely pathological state. In this paper I challenge this reading by taking another one of Kant’s claims seriously, namely that all l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Walschots
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Michigan Publishing 2023-11-01
Series:Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Online Access:https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/4670/