ABSTRACT
Concepts like love, which the people use in describing, explaining and ordering the personal relations of themselves and others, have received scant attention in the recent Anglo-American philosophical tradition. On a conception of philosophy which has had some currency in the recent Anglo-American tradition such conclusions would not be expected. It is not suggested that the sexuality requirement provides any precise distinction. It seems likely that there is not a precise distinction to be marked. The preceding modification would be required if a psychoanalytic theory which claimed that all relations involve a form of sexuality was adopted. One possible impact of the voluntaristic picture is seen in the context of unobtainable love. The variability in possible conceptions of love has ruled out the sort of precise and determinate conceptual relations that philosophers are prone to seek.
