Seminars in Moral Philosophy Week 6 HT10
| Event Name | Seminars in Moral Philosophy Week 6 HT10 |
| Start Date | 22nd Feb 2010 4:30pm |
| End Date | 22nd Feb 2010 6:30pm |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Description | Angelika Krebs (University of Basel) 'Dialogical Love' to be held in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton Street, Oxford - Seminars in Moral Philosophy webpage Abstract Love, says Martin Buber, is not about each partner having the other as his or her object, love is between the partners. It is dialogical. Lovers share what is important in their emotional and practical lives. The talk begins to give some substance to this idea by studying a literary example, Isabel Archer’s quest for dialogical love in Henry James’ novel The Portrait of a Lady. The talk then analyzes the notions of shared action and of shared feeling, drawing on three main sources: phenomenological studies on joint feeling from the beginning of the last century (especially Max Scheler’s distinction between four forms of sympathy), the contemporary analytical debate on joint action, and the contemporary philosophy of emotion (especially Martha Nussbaum’s cognitivism). The main contention of the talk is that the dialogical model of love is superior to the various monological models which are main-stream in philosophy today. Neither Harry Frankfurt’s care model nor Martha Nussbaum’s radiance model get to the heart of what love between two adults can be. |
