André Comte-Sponville's philosophy of love or the will to love better: an ethics for the 21st century
This master's dissertation deals, in general, with love as a philosophical object, and, more precisely, with the contemporary reflection on love developed by the French materialist philosopher André Comte-Sponville, for whom love would be the most important and vital among philosophical subjects. . Comte-Sponville presents love as a plural feeling, expressed essentially through three distinct conceptions throughout the history of Western philosophy: love as eros, love as philia and love as agape. Based on these three conceptions, Comte-Sponville develops his own philosophy of love, which will be exposed here and analyzed in its relation to ethics.