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Ferguson, Benjamin (2018) On love’s robustness. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21 (4). pp. 915-925. doi:10.1007/s10677-018-9929-z ISSN 1386-2820.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-018-9929-z
Abstract
Recently Philip Pettit (2015) has claimed that attachment, virtue, and respect are robust goods. Robust goods require not only the actual provision of certain associated ‘thin’ goods, but also the modally robust provision of these thin goods across a range of counterfactual situations. I focus my attention on Pettit’s account of the robust good of love, which, for Pettit, is the modally robust provision of care. I argue Pettit’s account provides neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for love. In place of Pettit’s account, I suggest an alternative account of love that distinguishes loving dispositions from loving actions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Love -- Philosophy, Attachment behavior , Virtue | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Ethical Theory and Moral Practice | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1386-2820 | ||||||||
Official Date: | August 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 21 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 915-925 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s10677-018-9929-z | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 October 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 October 2019 |
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