{"product_id":"the-concept-of-love-in-17th-and-18th-century-philosophy-9789058676511","title":"The Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause.\" Spinoza's definition of love manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth-century Europe, in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative \"forces of nature,\" were embraced by the new science of the mind.This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding human action. But is this rational approach really value-free? Today we tend to believe that values are inescapable, and that the descriptive-mechanical method implies its own set of values. Yet the assertion by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz, and Enlightenment thinkers that love guides us to wisdom-and even that the love of a god who creates and maintains order and harmony in the world forms the core of ethical behavior-still resonates powerfully with us. It is, evidently, an idea Western culture is unwilling to relinquish.This collection of insightful essays offers a range of interesting perspectives on how the triumph of \"reason\" affected not only the scientific-philosophical understanding of the emotions and especially of love, but our everyday understanding as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gábor Boros\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leuven University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789058676511","brand":"Leuven University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45606535266441,"sku":"9789058676511","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_3781cd29-3d87-4fa2-8309-f08ca33f5615.jpg?v=1776753470","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-concept-of-love-in-17th-and-18th-century-philosophy-9789058676511","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}