Call It Volitional Love Rather Than Unconditional Love

July 31, 2009 By 5 Comments

Earlier today I posted Brendan Palla’s reply to my posts on unconditional love and love in general.  In what follows, I have interspersed my replies to him within the stream of his argument. I want to open with a bit of a critique. I don’t think you’ve captured very well the notion of unconditional love [...]

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A Challenge To My Critique Of Unconditional Love

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A week ago I posted twice on the theme of love, spending the first post on what I saw to be conceptual problems for the ideal of unconditional love and then focusing the second post on a constructive attempt to characterize love and then locating unconditional love within that new framework. The next day, Brendan [...]

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Daily Hilarity: Plato’s State of the Art Graphics Cave

July 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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On Equity: Plato, Aristotle, and Sotomayor

July 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Some day down the road, I hope to sift all my thoughts on empathy and “wise Latinas judges” in light of Nietzsche’s wealth of insights into perspectival knowledge as a more virile knowledge than the emasculation that comes through objectivity.  (Genealogy of Morals III:12)  But to hold us over in the meantime, here is Joseph [...]

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