Abstract
AbstractThis chapter puts forward the puzzle of endless love: In its self-consciousness, love is endless; yet how can we conceive of our love as endless, when, empirically, we know that it may not be so? The chapter then seeks to answer the puzzle by developing an account of the “inner temporality” of love. The inner temporality of a mental state is derived from the temporality of the object of that mental state. The inner temporality of love is the apprehension of an individual, and an individual is endless. In its self-consciousness, love is endless, because it is the apprehension of an individual. Moreover, what we empirically learn about love—its outer temporality—is consistent with its inner temporality. This is why in the case of love, unlike in the case of grief and anger, we are not stuck with double vision.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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