Self-love
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
each man is dear to himself · every living creature loves itself
in the texts
Letters
A deeply rooted vice that hinders reconciliation and healing of church divisions.
Self-love, rooted in souls by long habit, one man is unable to remove, nor one letter, nor a brief space of time.
On Moral Ends
The premise, argued at length, that every living creature by nature loves and seeks to preserve itself, used as the starting point for deriving the highest good.
And yet how can it be understood or conceived that there is any living creature which hates itself?
And yet what is there more plain than that each man is not only dear to himself, but vehemently dear?
Every living creature loves itself, and, as soon as it is born, does this, that it may preserve itself;