Love, Sex, and Relationships

Hence, to say that love is a feeling is not to say that it exists in a private sphere apart from concrete relationships. Phenomenologists insist that feelings, as intentional acts, are bound up with our interactions with others within a given situation. Here, I am specifically interested in the phenomenon of loving another person, on which most

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While phenomenological approaches to love are by no means homogeneous, they share a number of premises that constitute a unique approach to the ethics of love. First, they agree that love is a feeling that intends the value of the loved one. Second, because phenomenologists take feelings to be acts, they posit that love is disclosed in an ongoing

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