'Speak to Us of Love': Some Difficulties in the Philosophical and Scientific Study of Love

Camilla Kronqvist

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18492-6_8

'Speak to Us of Love': Some Difficulties in the Philosophical and Scientific Study of Love

Camilla Kronqvist

Kultur, historia och filosofi

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Sammanfattning

How may science, philosophy and poetry aid us in our search for an understanding of the concept of love? By drawing on different attempts to articulate Wittgenstein’s notion that philosophizing about a concept is a matter of bringing it back to its natural home, the lives we live in language, this chapter presses what this may mean when the language we want to find the home for is the language of love. Is it a pre-requisite of such an investigation that it also speaks to us of love? What other existential dimensions and moral difficulties are there to be seen in the significance that different people are prepared to assign to different uses of ‘love’?

Originalspråk	Odefinierat/okänt
Titel på värdpublikation	Moral Foundations of Philosophy of Mind
Redaktörer	Joel Backström, Hannes Nykänen, Niklas Toivakainen, Thomas Wallgren
Förlag	Palgrave Macmillan
Sidor	203–227
ISBN (tryckt)	978-3-030-18491-9
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18492-6_8
Status	Publicerad - 2019
MoE-publikationstyp	A3 Del av bok eller annan forskningsbok

Nyckelord

Wittgenstein
love
ordinary language philosophy

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10.1007/978-3-030-18492-6_8

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030184919

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