Preferences

¶ Kierkegaard calls preferential love a disguised self-love. Was he unfair to lovers and friends?

On Sunday afternoons I have been reading Kjerlighedens Gjerninger, Works of Love (1847), in Danish. Today's question sent me back to its harshest part. Danish has two words that English flattens into "love": Elskov, erotic love, and Kjerlighed, love in the broad…