PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · 1996 · 141 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesSocial PsychologyInterpersonal CommunicationInterpersonal RelationshipsModern PhilosophyCouple RelationshipsMarital RelationshipsRelationship CommitmentRomantic RelationshipsIdealized LoveLover-beloved RelationshipPassionate LoveRomantic PsychologyRomantic Relationship Commitment
This essay presents an ideal for modern Western romantic love.The basic ideas are the following: people want to form a distinctive sort of plural subject with another, what Nozick has called a "We", they want to be loved for properties of certain kinds, and they want this love to establish and sustain a special sort of commitment to them over time.