Love as a value (Love as Valuing).This type of love is divided into two subspecies:
1) appreciates the loving subject of love itself, and love is understood as the assessment of the quality of love in relation to the subject of loving;
2) subject becomes valuable to the lover because of his love for him, t. E. In this case, love is understood as a quality that gives the subject (gives) loving.
first option adheres J. David Wellman, justifying its logic of Kant, which is clearly different from the price advantage (in fact, Kant drew attention to the difference between means and ends in love).Using an economic metaphor, we can assume that the price is to have to have a value which can be compared with the cost of other things through the price.This means that pet can be exchanged without loss of value.In contrast to have dignity means to have a value that is meaningless compared to the other value.In other words, the goods have a price, and the dignity of people, that can not be compared.According to Kant, our dignity as human beings is rooted in our rational nature, our ability to be motivated by reasons that we are automatically included in the definition of our goals and respond to the values that we have assimilated in the world.Accordingly, one of the manifestations of our nature is a rational reaction to respect the dignity of other persons.
What makes us respect the person?Wellman said, is that "restrains selfishness" and thus prevents us from relationship to the subject of love as a means to achieve our goals.He believes that love resembles the response to the dignity of the individual, ie,dignity and it is the object of our love, as well as its source.But the love and respect, there are different types of response to the same value.Love does not hold back our self-love.Rather, it restrains our emotions, that is,It robs us of emotional self-defense in front of others and thus weakens us.This means that interest, fascination, sympathy, etc. that are usually associated with love, do not make love, but are rather the result of normal, and love can be without them.
Wellman did not bother to respond, resulting in them are listed reaction (interest, etc.) and what is love?(For some reason, I feel like saying: with the nose!) The main thing in his other love - it's still an answer to the dignity, but not every person.("Love is the best response to the maximum advantage of the other".) Why such a response is not awarded all?Where is the line of choice?Wellman believes that the selection occurs when some people show the ability to express his dignity as a person, while others are able to appreciate this advantage, which, however, for some reason turns emotional vulnerability.Thus there is a correspondence between the behavior of the "subject of love" and "assessment" of the loving subject.
