Descartes on intellectual joy and the intellectual love of god.
Descartes maintains that we can love God and that it is pleasant and morally beneficial to do so. In this essay, I examine the necessary conditions for such an intellectual love of God. I argue that the intellectual love of God is incited by a judgment that we are joined to God in reality, which is...
| Published in: | International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. 1 - 20 |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
Springer Nature
Feb2024
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | Descartes maintains that we can love God and that it is pleasant and morally beneficial to do so. In this essay, I examine the necessary conditions for such an intellectual love of God. I argue that the intellectual love of God is incited by a judgment that we are joined to God in reality, which is constitutive of an intellectual joy. I go on to show that the intellectual love of God is, itself, constituted by a stripping of our private interests in favor of God's divine will. |
|---|