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  • 7 - Self-Love and Neighbour-Love

  • Katherine Chambers, University of New England, Australia
  • Book:
    Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    23 November 2023, pp 240-268

  • Summary

    This chapter finds that Augustine thought of self-love and neighbour-love as both eros and philia and that he found that vicious people were able to love other people unselfishly, even though their love for others would always be sinful as the love for something temporal. This chapter establishes that eros for our neighbours was not a self-centred love – it did not instrumentalise others by making them the ‘means’ to our happiness; rather, for Augustine, eros for the neighbour, whether this love was sinful or virtuous, was a form of benevolence.