Love and Friendship Samplers

Abstract The fundamental claim of the book is that love is central to virtue. Beginning with an account of love it argues that there are many criteria for love which...

Under what circumstances can love generate moral reasons for action? Are there morally appropriate ways to love? Can an occurrence of love or a failure to love constitute a moral f...

The topic of this chapter is liturgical enactments as manifestations of love. A distinction is drawn between two forms of love that Jesus enjoined: neighbor love, and Christ-like f...

Focusing on Montaigne’s adaptation of Cicero’s De amicitia within his own essay “On Friendship,” this chapter reveals Montaigne’s complex reception of the “Roman error” of putting ...

Abstract This book presents an interdisciplinary theory of friendship that draws on psychological science, Aristotle’s theory, evolutionary science, attachment sc...

Abstract The most controversial episode in the life of the seventeenth-century virtuoso and diarist John Evelyn has always been his passionate, complex friendship...

Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love—often unrequited or impossible love—to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political po...

This chapter explores early modern literary responses to one of the most fundamental issues in the Christian faith—the love of God for humankind, and its reception and reciprocatio...