Setting aside instrumental benefits, what is good about loving and being loved? Does the answer depend on love taking a specific form? Where do we even get our notions of love from in the first place? Is it preferable to be loved no matter what, or instead to be loved for your good qualities?

In this series, “How Do I Love Thee?” Austen McDougal will explore the ethics of breakups and relationships across four sessions. For the first session, read Tony Milligan’s “Love and Acceptance.”

On Monday, February 23, at 6 PM, join Morningside and Austen McDougal (NYU) for the first session of “How Do I Love Thee?” on the good of love itself.