On Hume's Naturalistic Account of Love

In my paper, I analyse Hume's philosophy of love with the general philosophical idea of a continual flux in the background. My main source is his Treatise of Human Nature published in 1739 where Hume develops in full length his purely naturalistic moral theory. First, I recall some basic features of Hume's general concept of a passion. Afterwards, I characterize his concept of love in context of his "principle'' of sympathy in order to connect finally Hume's ideas to a basic distinction within traditional philosophy of love between love of benevolence and love of desire.