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This 5 page paper looks at these two famous philosophers' takes on love and morality. Various aspects of Hume's and Kant's moral theories are discussed.
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the kind of emotion that seems to figure in Humes moral theory. For Hume, love seems to be a feeling that naturally fixates on characteristics of others which are equated
with moral approval. Essentially, Hume claims that people tend to love those who manifest moral virtues. While it seems to be true as women fall in love with their husbands
all over again when they are performing some fatherly duty, or that people tend to marry those who exhibit such traits and not marry the jock they were so enamored
of, one has to question its validity. After all, many women do fall in love with the wrong men, men who are not virtuous and men who treat them like
objects. But perhaps then, that is not true love, but infatuation. Is Hume right? What does he have to say exactly about love?
Hume treats love and hate similar to his ideas on pride and humility (Honderich 380). He gives an example that a person takes pride in his or her home because
the house is related to the owner so by association of ideas, the house creates an idea of himself (380). It sounds rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume
further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pride (380). The difference when speaking about love and hate, is that the object of pride and
humility is oneself and the object of love and hate is another person (380). It is an interesting notion of selfishness, but something that one cannot really escape. After all,
the sayings that one dies alone, wakes up alone, and wherever one goes, there he or she is, has meaning. People are individuals and are not attached to the hip
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