The Paradox of Aquinas’s Altruism: From Self-Love to Love of Others

Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 63:72-83 (1989)
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Aquinas argues that love of others depends on whether the other is seen as a person like oneself or as a tool of gratification. The former grounds love-of-friendship (altruistic love), the latter love-of-concupiscence. Seeing the other as a person like oneself enables one to love the other as another self, thereby, basing altruism ultimately on self-love.

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10.5840/acpaproc19896324

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