Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781107105225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 192 str.

Ryan Patrick Hanley

Opis

The transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.

Recenzje

'Love's Enlightenment remains a searching and rewarding study of how returning to some of the eighteenth-century's finest philosophers can enrichen our theorizing of other-directed sentiments today.' Robin Douglass, Journal of the History of Philosophy

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Hume on humanity; 3. Rousseau on pity; 4. Smith on sympathy; 5. Kant on love.