All You Need is Love(s): Exploring the Biological Platform of Morality

Maureen Sie

All You Need is Love(s): Exploring the Biological Platform of Morality

Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science

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Abstract

This chapter explores the claim that our nature as loving beings can explain our nature as moral beings. Are we able to make sense of such a claim and if so, how? This chapter aims to offer a possible philosophical answer by distinguishing among several kinds of loves and relating them to what I call different moral dimensions of our existence. The moral dimensions that I distinguish correspond to dimensions that philosophers have traditionally applied to explain our nature as moral beings. If my answer is appealing, then we have a naturalized account of morality that leaves space for a variety of philosophical views.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Neuroexistentialism
Subtitle of host publication	Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
Editors	Gregg Caruso, Owen Flanagan
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	3
Pages	38-53
ISBN (Print)	9780190460723
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Love
Morality
C.S. Lewis

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