Lesson 4: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LOVE Flashcards
TRUE OR FALSE
Love plays an essential role in Augustinian ethics.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE
“The therapeutic nature of grace heals the will through the Holy Spirit by illuminating the soul with the love of God”
TRUE
The Four Fundamentals
“disorders” or “passions” of desire, joy,
fear, and grief
Stoic ideal which says that a wise man should not experience the
four fundamentals
“apatheia”
is closely associated with desire, passion,
emotions, and so forth.
Love
TRUE OR FALSE
For Plato, both the good and the bad experience such emotions.
FALSE
For Augustine, both the good and the bad experience such emotions.
TRUE OR FALSE
Intention does not matter.
What matters is the intention.
The important factor in these emotions is ___________________________.
the character of a man’s will
TRUE OR FALSE
“A person is what one loves”
TRUE
Book by Augustine which described and elaborated that man is basically guided by two types of love
“City of God”
THE FUNDAMENTAL TYPES OF LOVE
- Love of Self (amor Sui).
- Love of God (amor Dei).
Augustine traces the very origin of the two ______ to two
types of love:
“cities”
was created by self-love reaching the point of
contempt for God;
earthly city
by the love of God carried as far as contempt
of self.
heavenly city
Augustine distinguishes kinds of love
- licit/illicit human love
- Divine love.
TRUE OR FALSE
For Augustine, Christians have to love with the love given to them by the Holy Spirit.
TRUE
Our love must be inspired by _________, and ought to mirror it.
divine love
endows the human will with a new desire, a striving for divine truth, wisdom, and justice.
Love as a gift of God
TRUE OR FALSE
love as the gift of God applies in the first place to God’s love for others.
FALSE
love as the gift of God applies in the first place to God’s love for us.
is a life coupling two realities or trying to couple them:
the lover and the loved object
Love
There are four objects of love
- God (Love of God)
- Our ourselves (Self-love)
- Our neighbors (Love of Neighbors)
- Our body (Love of the body)
Love unites us with God as our eternal, everlasting good.
LOVE OF GOD
Only God as summum bonum can guarantee true happiness our love will become perfect when we have attained God as our supreme good
LOVE OF GOD
God alone may be enjoyed
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