The Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy.

The Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Affiliations of the Contributors -- Cartesian Subjectivity and Love -- 1. The problem of the emotion -- 2. Love and representation -- 3. The problem of the interest -- The Role of Amicitia in Political Life -- L'apparition de l'amour de soi dans l'Éthique -- Nature et fondement de l'amour-propreou de l'amour de soi -- L'absence d'amour-propre dans le Court Traité et le Traité de la réforme de l'entendement -- L'émergence de l'amour-propre et de l'amour de soi dans l'Éthique -- Spinoza über Liebe und Erkenntnis -- Leibniz on Love -- 1.1. Passions, Passivity -- 1.2. The Conatus -- 1.3. Passions and Actions Reconsidered -- 2. Leibnizean Love -- 2.1. The Metaphysical Concept of Love -- 3. Love in Natural Law -- Abbreviations -- Malebranche on Natural and Free Loves -- 1. Descartes on Passionate and Rational Love -- 1.1. Passionate love in the Passions -- 1.2. Rational love in the letter to Chanut -- 2. Malebranche on Love and the Will -- 2.1. Descartes and Augustine -- 2.2. Three characteristics of the will -- 2.2.1. Will as motion -- 2.2.2. Will as directed to the good -- 2.2.3. Will as the desire for happiness -- 3. Malebranche on Natural Love -- 4. Malebranche on Free Love -- 4.1. The turning of natural love -- 4.2. The rest of consent -- 4.3. The determination of free love -- The Problem of Conscience and Order in the Amour-pur Debate -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- Love of God and Love of Creatures: The Masham-Astell Exchange -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- The Theory and Regulation of Love in 17th Century Philosophy -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- 7. -- Frances Hutcheson: From moral sense to spectatorial rights -- 1. Background -- 2. Hutcheson's moral theory -- 3. Hutcheson on rights -- 4. Hutcheson on Animal Rights -- 5. Conclusion.

Philosophy as medicina mentis? Hume and Spinoza on Emotions and Wisdom -- 1. Spinoza and the Search for Wisdom -- 2. Conatus, Emotions, Reason -- 3. From knowledge to salvation -- 4. Hume on reason and 'the medecine of the mind' -- 5. From Passions to Reason -- 6. Humean Wisdom and Diffidence -- The Depth of the Heart - "even if a bit tumultuous". On Compassion and Erotic Love in Diderot's Ethics -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- 7. -- 8. -- 9. -- 10. -- 11. -- 12. -- Motivational Internalism: A Kantian Perspective on Moral Motives and Reasons -- Introduction -- 1. Reason or feeling? The British Debate concerningmoral motives -- 2. Kant's conception of moral motivation -- 3. The formal, emotive and autonomous dimensions of moral motivation -- Conclusion -- Kant on: "Love God above all, and your neighbour as yourself" -- 1. Love As The Content Of Kant's Ethics Of Virtue -- 2. How must the Duty of Love be seen as a Divine Command? -- A. The Duty Of Religion As A Duty Of A Human BeingTo Himself -- 1. The recognition of all our duties as divine commands -- 2. God, a fiction strengthening the moral feeling of respect -- B. The Command 'To Love God' and The Disposition of Gladness -- 1. Gladness and holiness -- 2. Inner religion as rational self-love -- C. A Theological Principle Of The Duty Of Love Of God: God's Love For Us -- 1. Love deduced from God's goodness -- 2. God's goodness limited by justice -- 3. The Second Commandment: Menschenliebe in its Universality -- A. Love to others: feeling and benevolence -- B. "As myself" -- C. A Theological Principle For The Second Commandment -- 4. Struggling with the Noumenal Freedom in Practical Love: Emotions and Passions -- 5. Recapitulation and Assessment: Love Languishing in Awe, Guilt and Justice -- 6. A metaphysics of love beyond the Kantian limits of reason alone.

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