9781107105225-1107105226-Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity

Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781107105225
ISBN-10: 1107105226
Author: Ryan Patrick Hanley
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781107105225
ISBN-10: 1107105226
Author: Ryan Patrick Hanley
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 192 pages

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Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (ISBN-13: 9781107105225 and ISBN-10: 1107105226), written by authors Ryan Patrick Hanley, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Political (Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Political books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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A number of prominent moral philosophers and political theorists have recently called for a recovery of love. But what do we mean when we speak of love today? Love's Enlightenment examines four key conceptions of other-directedness that transformed the meaning of love and helped to shape the way we understand love today: Hume's theory of humanity, Rousseau's theory of pity, Smith's theory of sympathy, and Kant's theory of love. It argues that these four Enlightenment theories are united by a shared effort to develop a moral psychology that can provide both justificatory and motivational grounds for concern for others in the absence of recourse to theological or transcendental categories. In this sense, each theory represents an effort to redefine the love of others that used to be known as caritas or agape - a redefinition that came with benefits and costs that have yet to be fully appreciated.

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