Jonathan Edwards’ Self-Love Theory: A Revision
In The Theological Magazine (1798), Jonathan Edwards Jr. challenged the Hopkinsian claim that it is impossible "to describe a self-love of a ‘different kind from selfishness, which is not included in universal disinterested benevolence’" by invoking "all those personal feelings, in...
Published in: | Jonathan Edwards studies |
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the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale Universiry
2022
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Jonathan Edwards studies
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Early Modern History
B Philosophy |
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Summary: | In The Theological Magazine (1798), Jonathan Edwards Jr. challenged the Hopkinsian claim that it is impossible "to describe a self-love of a ‘different kind from selfishness, which is not included in universal disinterested benevolence’" by invoking "all those personal feelings, in which President Edwards places self-love." In his search for less-alloyed disinterestedness, Samuel Hopkins creatively fenced self-love from the Christian moral life by recategorizing it when duly regulated (i.e., by a readiness to be given up for the good of the whole) as genuine disinterested benevolence. But for Edwards Jr., this was a mistake. |
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ISSN: | 2159-6875 |
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