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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2025
Love (amor) has an important place within Spinoza’s account of the affects throughout his corpus. In one of his earlier works, the KV, he devotes the fifth chapter of the second part to love, which he defines as “nothing but enjoying a thing and being united with it.” In the KV Spinoza distinguishes different kinds of love according to the “qualities of the object man seeks to enjoy and unite with” (KV2.5[1]), that is, according to whether they are “corruptible in themselves,” “corruptible through their cause,” or “eternal and incorruptible” (KV2.5, i/62). God is the only object of love that falls in this last category.
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