Kant on Love

Pärttyli Rinne

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2018

Kant on Love

Pärttyli Rinne
Funded by: University of Helsinki

Volume 196 in the series Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110544978

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About this book

“This is an immensely useful resource for other scholars and philosophers wishing to understand Kant’s views on love.”
– Rae Langton, University of Cambridge

What did Immanuel Kant really think about love? In Kant on Love, Pärttyli Rinne provides the first systematic study of ‘love’ in the philosophy of Kant. Rinne argues that love is much more important to Kant than previously realised, and that understanding love is actually essential for Kantian ethical life.The study involves two interpretative main propositions. First, that love in Kant includes an underlying general division of love into love of benevolence and love of delight. Further, the study divides Kant’s concept of love into several aspects of love, such as self-love, sexual love (and love of beauty), love of God, love of neighbor and love in friendship. A chapter of the book is devoted to each of these aspects, beginning with the lowest forms of self-love as crude animality, and moving gradually upwards towards idealised ethical notions of love. One way or another, the major aspects relate to the general division of love.This analytical trajectory yields the second main proposition of the study: Together, the aspects of love reveal an ascent of love in Kant’s thought. Perhaps surprisingly, for Kant, love permeates human existence from the strongest impulses of nature to the highest ideals of morally deserved happiness.

Author / Editor information

Pärttyli Rinne, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom.

Reviews

"On ne peut donc que louer l’érudition de l’ouvrage de P. Rinne et espérer qu’il contribuera à la réhabilitation du thème de l’amour, dont il montre pleinement l’importance, au sein de la philosophie pratique kantienne."
Charlotte Sabourin in: Revue philosophique 4/2018, 580-582

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	V
Contents Open Access Download PDF	VII
1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Sexual Love Open Access Download PDF	57
3. Love of God Open Access Download PDF	84
4. Love of Neighbour Open Access Download PDF	110
5. Love in Friendship Open Access Download PDF	145
Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	167
Appendix: Explanatory Note on Fig. 8 Open Access Download PDF	174
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	176
Index of Persons Open Access Download PDF	183
Subject Index Open Access Download PDF	185

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 189
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
Keywords: Kant; Immanuel; moral philosophy; ethics

eBook

Published: January 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110544978

Hardcover

Published: January 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110543858

Paperback

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110685213