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Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry

Saunders, Joe

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McTaggart takes love seriously. He rejects rival accounts that look to reduce love to pleasure, moral approbation or a fitting response to someone’s qualities. In addition, he thinks that love reveals something about the structure of the universe, and that in absolute reality, we could all love each other. In this paper, I follow McTaggart in his rejection of rival accounts of love, but distance myself from his own account of love in absolute reality. I argue that in claiming that we could all love each other, he fails to adequately account for an important part of the phenomena of love, namely chemistry.

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Saunders, J. (2018). Taking love seriously: McTaggart, absolute reality and chemistry. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26(4), 719-737. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1393617

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 21, 2017
Online Publication Date Nov 28, 2017
Publication Date Jul 4, 2018
Deposit Date Sep 26, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Print ISSN 0960-8788
Electronic ISSN 1469-3526
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 26
Issue 4
Pages 719-737
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1393617
Related Public URLs http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/124721/

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