Book I of the Republic

Call It Volitional Love Rather Than Unconditional Love

July 31, 2009 By Daniel Fincke 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

July 31, 2009 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

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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