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...

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Auteur principal: Agoff, Zachary (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer Nature B. V 2024
Dans: International journal for philosophy of religion
Année: 2024, Volume: 95, Numéro: 1, Pages: 1-19
Sujets non-standardisés:B Joy
B Love
B Intellectual emotions
B God
B Descartes
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:1572-8684
Contient:Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11153-023-09885-y