Love and rationality: on some possible rational effects of love

Abstract

In this paper I defend the idea that rather than disrupting rationality, as the common-sense conception has done it, love may actually help us to develop rational ways of thinking and acting. I make the case for romantic or erotic love, since this is the kind of love that is more frequently associated with irrationality in acting and thinking. I argue that this kind of love may make us develop epistemic and practical forms of rationality. Based on an analysis of its characteristic action tendencies, I argue that love may help us to develop an instrumental form of rationality in determining the best means to achieve the object of love. It may also narrow down the number of practical considerations that may help us to achieve our goals. Finally, love may generate rational ways of belief-formation by framing the parameters taken into account in perception and attention, and by bringing into light only a small portion of the epistemic information available. Love may make us perceive reality more acutely.<br>Neste artigo defendo a idéia de que, em vez de perturbar a racionalidade, como a concepção do senso comum o faz, o amor pode, na verdade, ajudar-nos a desenvolver modos racionais de pensar e agir. Dou bons argumentos para o amor romântico ou erótico, uma vez que esse é o tipo de amor que é mais freqüentemente associado à irracionalidade no agir e no pensar. Argumento que esse tipo de amor pode fazer-nos desenvolver formas epistêmicas e práticas de racionalidade. Com base em uma análise de suas tendências características para a ação, argumento que o amor pode ajudar-nos a desenvolver uma forma instrumental de racionalidade para se determinar o melhor meio de atingir o objeto de amor. Ele também pode limitar o número de considerações práticas que podem ajudar-nos a atingir os nossos objetivos. Finalmente, o amor pode gerar modos racionais de formação de crenças ao estruturar os parâmetros considerados na percepção e na atenção e ao revelar somente uma pequena parcela da informação epistêmica disponível. O amor pode fazer-nos perceber a realidade de um modo mais vivo

Living God Pandeism: Evidential Support

“…Or God could become a world out of love: Not selfless agape , as that word is defined by some Protestant theologians, but something closer to what Thomas Oord (2010, 121–22) calls “multidimensional love.” Gabriele Taylor (1976, 154) describes love this way: “If x loves y we have on the one hand x ’s wants to benefit and cherish y , on the other his wants to be with y , to communicate with y , to have y take an interest in him, to be benefited and cherished by y .” Gustavo Ortiz‐Millán (2007, 137) is more succinct: “Love is about benefiting and being with the beloved….”…”

Terms of Sensory Perception in English and Vietnamese Metaphorical Expressions of Love

“…(Fragrance makes him miss her and his tea tasteless) (Nguyễn Du) Happiness is always accompanied by love. Ortiz-Millán [23] argues that it is hardly to talk about love separated from other feelings such as happiness, sadness and even hatred. The feeling happiness in (27) is obviously referred to love, which is brought by "you" when "soaring into my life".…”

“…Along with the common conception of love such as its visibility (see table 3), its touchableness (see table 4), its flavours (see table 5 and 6) or its sound (see table 7), the specific images of love are alike to both English and Vietnamese poets; for example, the beauty of love as in (1) and (4), the flower of love (see examples 7 and 9), the fire of love in (20) and (23) or even the pain of love as in (26) and (28). Moreover, there is also the emergence of surprisingly shared linguistic metaphors in these two languages.…”