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Romantic love and the first-person plural perspective
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6150-5489
2024 (English)In: Inquiry, ISSN 0020-174X, E-ISSN 1502-3923Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

On the assumption that romantic partners tend to act from a first-person plural perspective, how should the love that binds them be understood? This paper approaches this question by focusing on romantic practical integration, understood as the tendency of romantic partners to integrate their practical perspectives in such a way that allows them to have 'reasons-for-us': reasons for action that apply to them as a group, in a collective and non-distributive sense (Westlund 2009). After dispelling some reservations about the connection between romantic love and the first-person plural perspective, I argue that the resources offered by one leading account of love, due to Bennett Helm, fall short of accounting for romantic practical integration. Building on Stephen Darwall's account of romantic love as a 'second-personal attitude of the heart', I develop an alternative proposal. The proposed view foregrounds the relational and non-deontic normative character of romantic love, by conceptualizing it as an addressing attitude that intrinsically seeks - but doesn't demand - reciprocation. On this view, the attitude of romantic love co-involves the addressee of the attitude as a (potential or actual) member of a narratively unified interpersonal community, in light of which putative reasons-for-us may be taken on board or rejected.

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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD , 2024.
Keywords [en]
Romantic love; reasons-for-us; first-person plural perspective; second-person perspective; non-deontic normativity; we-narratives
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Philosophy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-204297DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2024.2358335ISI: 001236708900001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-204297DiVA, id: diva2:1867541
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Funding Agencies|European Research Council10.13039/501100000781

Available from: 2024-06-10 Created: 2024-06-10 Last updated: 2024-06-10

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