Morality as universal love : is love all you need?
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In this dissertation, I investigate whether universal love can play a foundational role in moral theory. I argue that universal love is apt to play a foundational role in virtue ethical moral theory. I start by sketching a volitional account of love and use it to develop an account of universal love as the desire for the well-being of all beings with moral standing. I argue that universal love cannot play a foundational role in deontological or consequentialist moral theory, but it can play a foundational role in virtue ethical moral theory. I sketch a virtue ethical moral theory in which universal love is the sole cardinal moral virtue that grounds all the other moral virtues and defend the theory against some important objections.
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Ph. D