Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction; Christian Maurer, Tony Milligan and Kamila Pacovská PART I: ROMANTIC AND EROTIC LOVE 1. Dialogical Love; Angelika Krebs 2. Ain't Love Nothing but Sex Misspelled? The Role of Sex in Romantic Love; Aaron Ben-Ze'ev 3. Loving Persons: Activity and Passivity in Romantic Relationships; Michael Kühler 4. What did Socrates Love?; Tomáš Hejduk PART II: THE APPROPRIATE BELOVED 5. Self-hatred, Self-love and Value; Kate Abramson & Adam Leite 6. Is it Better to Love Better Things?; Aaron Smuts 7. Loving the Lovable; Katrien Schaubroeck 8. Loving Villains: Virtue in Response to Wrongdoing; Kamila Pacovská PART III: STRANGERS 9. Loving a Stranger; Jan Bransen 10. On 'Love at First Sight'; Christian Maurer PART IV: HUMANS AND PERSONS 11. Persons as Irreplaceable; Elizabeth Drummond Young 12. What Relationship Structure Tells Us about Love; Magdalena Hoffmann PART V: THE NON-HUMAN 13. Animals and the Capacity for Love; Tony Milligan 14. The Love of Art: Art, Oikophilia, and Philokalia; Daniel Gustafsson Index