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Stephen Darwall is the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and the John Dewey Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. The author of numerous books and articles on moral philosophy and the history of ethics, he has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001 and is a founding co-editor of Philosophers' Imprint. His books include The Second-Person Standpoint, Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant, Impartial Reason, Philosophical Ethics, Welfare and Rational Care, and The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740.

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Stephen Darwall explores a subject neglected by analytic philosophers: matters of the heart. He shows how the ways in which we humans achieve personal connection with each other in friendship and love, through mutual emotional vulnerability and sharing, are central are to what we value most about our lives, including our lives with animals.

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• 1: Heart, the Very Idea

• 2: Respect and Love in Douglass and Baldwin

• 3: Two Species of Reactive Attitudes : Attitudes of the Will and Attitudes of the Heart

• 4: Two Contrasts: Guilt vs. Remorse and Moral Indignation vs. Personal Anger

• 5: Love: The Principal Attitude of the Heart

• 6: Trust and Hope

• 7: Løgstrup on Natural Trust and Love : (with Discussion of Murdoch and Kierkegaard)

• 8: Heartfelt Being with

• 9: Gratitude

• 10: Respect and Love in Reparations and Repair for Chattel Slavery and Its Legacy