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- Title
- Love: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
- Author
- de Sousa, Ronald
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 019966384X
- ISBN 13
- 9780199663842
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Series
- Book 81 of 344: Very Short Introductions
Do we love someone for their virtue, their beauty, or their moral or other qualities? Are love's characteristic desires altruistic or selfish? Are there duties of love? What do the sciences tell us about love? In this Very Short Introduction, Ronald de Sousa explores the different kinds of love, from affections to romantic love.
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About the Author
Ronald de Sousa is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has taught at University of Toronto, Canada since 1966. He is the author of The Rationality of Emotion (MIT 1987) , Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind (OUP 2007, 2011), and Emotional Truth (OUP 2011). He has also published over a hundred articles and book chapters, and taught and lectured in some twenty countries. His research interests have been mainly in areas of philosophy that seek to understand the mind: emotion, evolutionary theory, cognitive science, aesthetics, ethics, and sex.
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