{"product_id":"the-concept-of-love-in-gbor-boros-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 G?bor Boros\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 905867651X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789058676511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leuven University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"G?bor Boros","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867108692223,"sku":"9789058676511","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ec6e9c92-b007-4a13-9ee4-5e83b129459f.jpg?v=1747453913","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-concept-of-love-in-gbor-boros-9789058676511","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}