Romantic Love and Loving Commitment: Articulating a Modern Ideal

Neil Delaney

Romantic Love and Loving Commitment: Articulating a Modern Ideal

American Philosophical Quarterly 33 (4):339-356 (1996)

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Abstract

This essay presents an ideal for modern Western romantic love.The basic ideas are the following: people want to form a distinctive sort of plural subject with another, what Nozick has called a "We", they want to be loved for properties of certain kinds, and they want this love to establish and sustain a special sort of commitment to them over time.

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Love Commitment Sexuality

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Defining Love in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

Features of Love in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

Theories of Love in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

Value Theory, Misc in Value Theory, Miscellaneous

Varieties of Love in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

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