Alexander Pruss's Blog

We are said to have various obligations, especially of benevolence, to our friends precisely because they are our friends. Yet this seems mi...

Sometimes it wrongs a person to intentionally do them what is known to be in their own best interest. If by torturing you for 60 minutes I c...

On my view, love has a three-fold structure: benevolence appreciation union. This three-fold structure has certain Trinitarian paralle...

In One Body , I identified three crucial aspects in every form of love: benevolence, appreciation and unity. But I did not have an argument ...

Some people distinguish the (non-instrumental) value of an individual's feature from the (non-instrumental) value for the individual of ...

The best kind of love involves benevolence. But how then can a love for God be of the best kind? Aquinas answers this problem basically by...

There are two fairly standard claims about love: benevolence--willing the good--towards the beloved is an essential component of love, and l...