Velleman

Velleman (1999, 2008) offers an appraisal view of love, understanding love to be fundamentally a matter of acknowledging and responding in a distinctive way to the value of the beloved.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

See Bays 2001 for Bays 'original formulation of this objection; see Velleman 1998 and Gaifman

Skolem's Paradox Bays, Timothy 2009

However, this answer is unavailable to Velleman, because he thinks that what makes my response to your dignity that of love rather than respect is precisely that I feel such emotions, and to appeal to my love in explaining the emotions therefore seems viciously circular.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

It is also questionable whether Velleman can even explain the selectivity of love in terms of the “fit” between your expressions and my sensitivities.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

Given this, Velleman claims that love is similarly a response to the dignity of persons, and as such it is the dignity of the object of our love that justifies that love.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

Velleman (1999), for example, thinks we can answer (1) by appealing to the fact that my beloved is a person and so has a rational nature, yet he thinks (2) and (3) have no answers: the best we can do is offer causal explanations for our loving particular people.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

In contrast to Velleman, Singer (1991, 1994, 2009) understands love to be fundamentally a matter of bestowing value on the beloved.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

Velleman claims, still following Kant, is that it “arrests our self-love” and thereby prevents us from treating him as a means to our ends (p. 360).

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

By ˜lovable™ here Velleman seems to mean able to be loved, not worthy of being loved, for nothing Velleman says here speaks to a question about the justification of my loving this person rather than that.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

One might also question whether Velleman and Badhwar make proper use of their examples of loving your meddlesome relation or someone who has died.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009