Abstract

This paper tries to establish the epistemic status of the intuition that love must arise naturally rather than artificially to be genuine in order to determine the ramifications for love’s nature and our metaphysical theories of love. After discussing some hypothetical cases where love seems to arise artificially along with some where it seems to arise naturally in order to clarify the difference between love arising “naturally” versus “artificially” and shed further light on what the intuition claims, I then mount and defend an argument from cases against the intuition, which strongly suggests that love can arise naturally or artificially, and thus that the intuition is false.