Love as Attunement

Love as a Reactive Emotion

One variety of love is familiar in everyday life and qualifies in every reasonable sense as a reactive attitude. ‘Reactive love’ is paradigmatically (a) an affectionate attachment to another person, (b) appropriately felt as a non-self-interested response to particular kinds of morally laudable features of character expressed by the loved one in interaction with the lover, and (c) paradigmatica...

Attunement to Constraints in Nonmonotonic Reasoning Attunement to Constraints in Nonmonotonic Reasoning

Epistolary Justice: The Love Letter as Law

Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process.

This article explores the possibility that romantic love is an attachment process--a biosocial process by which affectional bonds are formed between adult lovers, just as affectional bonds are formed earlier in life between human infants and their parents. Key components of attachment theory, developed by Bowlby, Ainsworth, and others to explain the development of affectional bonds in infancy, ...

Descartes on love and/as error.