Abstract
In the second part of his book Kierkegaard has more to say about the distinctive character of spiritual love and he talks about such love’s work in ‘forming the heart’ and about its place in human life. ‘Love [he says] is the deepest ground of the life of the spirit’ (p. 205). Indeed I think he would agree that it is the source of goodness as he understands it. Those things that are part of goodness in a spiritual sense, such as patience, forgiveness, selfless service, generosity, mercifulness, humility, and courage too, the kind of courage that belongs to one’s convictions, come from love; they are features of the distinctive character of spiritual love. One comes to such love by the purification of the soul, and that involves the purification of such love as one is capable of to begin with through self-renunciation.KeywordsDistinctive CharacterHuman LoveTrue LoveSpiritual PerspectiveErotic LoveThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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