How Self-Love Shapes Our Love for Others—for Good or Evil | Jonathan Edwards
Deep Dive into The Nature of True Virtue by Jonathan Edwards - Of Self-Love, and Its Various Influence, to Cause Love to Others, or the ContraryIn his exploration of whether all love stems from self-love, Jonathan Edwards distinguishes between two definitions of the term. The first definition suggests self-love is simply a person's general capacity to love whatever pleases them, whether that is their own happiness or the happiness of others. Edwards dismisses this as an absurd explanation for the cause of love, because it merely states that people have a faculty of will but does not explain…
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