Book contents
- The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
- The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Using this Lexicon
- Abbreviations
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- 111. Language
- 112. Law (Metaphysical)
- 113. Law (Political)
- 114. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716)
- 115. Love
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Bibliography
- Index of Cross-References
- References
115. - Love
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
- The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Using this Lexicon
- Abbreviations
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- 111. Language
- 112. Law (Metaphysical)
- 113. Law (Political)
- 114. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716)
- 115. Love
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Bibliography
- Index of Cross-References
- References
Summary
Love (amor) has an important place within Spinoza’s account of the affects throughout his corpus. In one of his earlier works, the KV, he devotes the fifth chapter of the second part to love, which he defines as “nothing but enjoying a thing and being united with it.” In the KV Spinoza distinguishes different kinds of love according to the “qualities of the object man seeks to enjoy and unite with” (KV2.5[1]), that is, according to whether they are “corruptible in themselves,” “corruptible through their cause,” or “eternal and incorruptible” (KV2.5, i/62). God is the only object of love that falls in this last category.
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- The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 329 - 332Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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Recommended Reading
Alanen, L. (2016). Descartes and Spinoza on the love of God. In Laiho, H. and Repo, A. (eds.), De natura rerum: Scripta in honorem professoris Olli Koistinen sexagesimum annum complentis (pp. 74–97). University of Turku.Google Scholar
Carlisle, C. (2021). The intellectual love of God. In Melamed, Y. (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza (pp. 440–48). Wiley-Blackwell.Google Scholar
Jacquet, C. (2005). L’apparition de l’amour de soi chez Spinoza. In Jacquet, Les expressions de la puissance d’agir chez Spinoza (pp. 113–32). Publications de la Sorbonne.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Melamed, Y. (2019). The enigma of Spinoza’s amor Dei intellectualis. In Naaman-Zauderer, N. (ed.), Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza’s Ethics (pp. 222–38). Routledge.Google Scholar
Nadler, S. (2018). The intellectual love of God. In Rocca, M. Della (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza (pp. 295–313). Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Rorty, A. (2009). Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love. In Gatens, M. (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza (pp. 59–76). Pennsylvania State University Press.Google Scholar