Sigourney, Tucker: For Yourself Alone: On the Specificity of the Reasons to Love Someone

European Journal of Philosophy. forthcomingThis paper is about reasons to love people. I defend a “particularist” view: that the central reason to love someone is simply who she is. I begin with a framing question—“why do you love me?”—and a taxonomy of views of love's reasons (§1). I argue that a particularist view is demanded by that framing question (§2). But offering such a view requires saying something about who the beloved is—so I borrow an account of human nature from Edith Stein which