Book description
This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the
context of a theory of emotions. The account develops out of studies in
brain psychology and the extension to topics in process-philosophy, such
as the nature of value and belief, and the central role of feeling in
mental process. The approach is subjectivist, that is, from the internal
standpoint, and in this respect it differs greatly from the externalist
and objectivist trends in modern cognitive science and empiricist
philosophy. Love is the ultimate in value, so that a theory of love is
also a theory of the nature of value and its relation to feeling,
belief, and to drive and desire. The role of intention, reason, and
appraisal is critiqued. The relation to other feelings, such as
jealousy, envy, anger, loss and grief is discussed in terms of a general
theory of emotion and the basis in a process account of the mind/brain
state.
