Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon--an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato's Symposium, love is "something in between." Jollimore makes his case by proposing a "vision" view of love, according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves bestowing charitable attention on a loved one. This view recognizes the truth in the cliché "love is blind," but holds that love's blindness does not undermine the idea that love is guided by reason. Reasons play an important role in love even if they rest on facts that are not themselves rationally justifiable. Filled with illuminating examples from literature, Love's Vision is an original examination of a subject of vital philosophical and human concern.

Moving from monasticism to constitutionalism, and from antinomianism to anarchism, this book reveals law's connection with love and freedom.

How do our emotions enable us to know? When Pascal noted that the heart has its own reasons, he implied that our rational faculty alone cannot grasp what is revealed in affective experience. Knowing Emotions seeks to explain comprehensively why human emotions are more than physiological disturbances, but experiences capable of making us aware of significant truths that we could not know by any other means. Recent philosophical and interdisciplinary research on the emotions has been dominated by a renewal of the debate over how best to characterize the intentionality of emotions as well as their bodily character. Rick Anthony Furtak frames this debate differently, however, arguing that intentionality and feeling are not two discrete parts of affective experience, but conceptually distinguishable aspects of a unified response. His account captures how an emotion's phenomenal or 'felt' quality (what it is like) relates to its intentional content (what it is about). Knowing Emotions provides a solid introduction to the philosophy of emotion before delving into the debates that surround it. Furtak draws from a wide range of analytic and Continental philosophers, including Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, among others, and bolsters his analysis with empirical evidence from social psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry. Perhaps most importantly, Furtak investigates all varieties of affective experience, from brief episodes to moods and emotional dispositions, loves and other longstanding concerns, and overall patterns of temperament and affective outlook. Ultimately, he argues that we must reject the misguided aspiration to purify ourselves of passion and attain an impersonal standpoint. Knowing Emotions attempts to clarify what kind of truth may be revealed through emotion, and what can be known - not despite, but precisely by virtue of, each person's idiosyncratic perspective.

"Gathering together references to the 'logic of the heart' from throughout Steiner's work, the author encapsulates the great teacher's revelations on the meaning of love, and indicates the supreme importance of the greatest of all deeds of love"--Cover.

Their love is more than she'd imagined, a way to talk to the gods, but will the price be too high? Sacrificing her shyness and worn dress may be a way to talk to the gods, but it also opens up the way to young Redbush's loincloth. In his warrior arms she feels safe, loved, wild. Freeing her own shaman power to talk to the Allfather, she will come to understand a terror that might be and the high price of loving someone. Though he creates heady sensations she has never known before, she will learn that everything has a price. Love opens many channels and closes many doors. Though his touch can make her see heaven, she will learn that you can't create without sacrifice. In the wilderness there are many dangers, the least of which might be losing her heart to her handsome young buck. Full of bravery, passion, and fear, she will aid her people—or destroy them. In the untamed wilds before America as we know it, history isn't just written—it is lived through blood and tears and love.

Once a household name and pop sensation, Tabitha Stetson is now navigating the shadows of obscurity, determined to keep a Hollywood secret under wraps. With three weeks of child-free bliss in the bustling Big Apple, Tabitha aims to rediscover her post-Sassy Cat purpose. Her desires are clear, but the path to fulfillment remains a puzzle. Then there’s Henderson Quade. Once a dreamer of the spotlight, he's now content directing the magic behind The Edison Theater's curtain. He'll move heaven and earth to ensure the theater's triumph, yet he staunchly maintains his cardinal rule: never date an actress. But a routine business meeting takes an unexpected turn when Henderson finds himself drawn to the captivating Tabitha. Their chemistry crackles, and her serenade steals his heart, making it clear this isn't just another date—it's a genuine connection. Yet, he's convinced it should be a one-time fling. That is until a nosy reporter throws a curveball, forcing The Edison Theater to bank on Tabitha's star power. And in an unexpected twist, Henderson realizes he needs her just as much as the theater does. Will this be a perfect match made in showbiz heaven, or will it spiral into an epic disaster? One thing's certain—the show must go on! Vision of Love is a toe-tapping, heartwarming romantic comedy that follows the ups and downs of love in the limelight. With catchy show tunes and pop hits setting the stage, you'll be singing along and rooting for a swoon-worthy happy ending that's sure to leave you smiling.