Love and Reasons [Spanish]

Authors

  • Juan Pablo Hernández Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Keywords:

Dispositions, emotions, love, irrationality, arrationality

Abstract

Love and rationality are often considered as capacities which easily come into conflict, or are even opposed to one another. In the paper I elaborate on some points suggested by Harry Frankfurt in order to propose that the relation between love and rationality is not one of opposition. After offering a characterization of love as a hybrid multi-track disposition, I will argue that love is rational in the following sense: although love is not justifiable, it is nevertheless a source of basic and sometimes irresistible reasons which to a large extent shape the field of our rationality. This does not mean that love is an irrational or arrational foundation, or that it is impervious to reason; it only means that in certain circumstances it makes sense to subject love to rational scrutiny.

Author Biography

Juan Pablo Hernández, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Doctor en Filosofía de la Universidad de Warwick. Profesor asociado de la Facultad de Filosofía de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y hace parte del grupo de investigación Problemas de Filosofía en la misma institución. En términos generales, su investigación se ocupa de problemas de filosofía de la acción y filosofía moral desde el punto de vista de la filosofía de las emociones. Ha desarrollado y publicado sobre acción y conceptualidad, ética ambiental y naturaleza de las emociones entre otros temas.

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