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The most beautiful girl in the world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Camilla Kronqvist
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Abstract

What does a lover mean when he says, ‘You're the most beautiful girl in the world’?

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 3 , Issue 9 , Spring 2005 , pp. 33 - 38
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2005

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Notes

1 Solomon, Robert C., Love: Emotion, Myth & Metaphor (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1990), p. 176.Google Scholar

2 Irving, Singer, The Nature of Love: Vol. 1 Plato to Luther (Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 3–4.Google Scholar

3 Ibid. p. 12.

4 Robert C. Solomon, op. cit., p. 177.

5 Irving Singer, op. cit., p. 6.

6 Ibid. p. 14.

7 Work on this essay was supported by the Academy of Finland (project number: 54701).