The reasons of love

Resumen del libro

A clear, accessible exploration of how and why we love by prominent philosopher and bestselling author Harry FrankfurtIn The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Through caring, we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with stable ambitions and concerns; it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we lead our lives.

Frankfurt goes on to explain that the most important form of caring is love, a nonvoluntary, disinterested concern for the flourishing of what is loved. And he contends that the purest form of love is self-love. This sounds perverse, but self-love--as distinct from self-indulgence--is at heart a disinterested concern for whatever it is that the person loves.

The most elementary form of self-love is nothing more than the desire of a person to love. Insofar as this is true, self-love is simply a commitment to finding meaning in our lives.

Biografía del autor

Harry G. Frankfurt(Pennsylvania, 1929) es profesor de Filosofía enla Universidad de Princeton, Estados Unidos. Doctorado en 1954 en filosofía porla Universidad John Hopkins, fue profesor en los prestigiosos centros académicos de Rockefeller y Yale, llegando a dirigir el Departamento de Filosofía durante más de una década a partir de 1978. Ha dedicado gran parte de su carrera a explorar las formas en las que las personas piensan en sí mismas intelectual y moralmente, y cómo los ideales y los valores conforman nuestras vidas.