Abstract
In Only a Promise of Happiness Alexander Nrehamas holds that beauty is the object of love. I raise three objections to this claim when formulated in terms of personal love: love is too narrow in scope to be the attitude whose formal object is beauty; one can experience a person's beauty but have no lovefor her; and love is of particulars, not of attributes, however specific, such as beauty A second kind of love, hedonic love, is too broad in scope to be the attitude whose formal object is beauty I also argue, contra Nehamas, that inner beauty exists.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 199-204 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | British Journal of Aesthetics |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - Apr 2010 |