Rethinking Love as Passion: Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate

Incivility is (not) the very essence of love: Passion for work and incivility instigation.

This study explored the relationship between obsessive passion for work and incivility instigations, as well as the moderating role of a mastery motivational climate. A longitudinal, 3-wave study was conducted among 1,263 employees from a large Norwegian workers' union across a 10-month time span. The results show that obsessive passion for work relates positively to incivility instigations and...

Daylight as an evolutionary architectural form finder

This paper presents a generic tool for generation and finding of curvilinear ceiling form according to required criteria of daylight uniformity ratios. A Genetic Algorithm was utilized as a process that simulates the behaviour and adaptation of a number of competing solutions through control nodes, as generations are created, tested and selected through repetitive mating and mutation. The compu...

Epistolary Justice: The Love Letter as Law

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...

Phenomenology of love: The Destructive and Constructive Nature of Love

Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental scientists. This paper aims to discuss a novel aspect in phenomenology of love, as the concept of destructive and constructive nature of love, which is to the best of our knowledge, presented for the first time. The fundamental idea of this paper w...