ABSTRACT
Love applies, in general, to the entire range of objects within the domain of value. But the kinds of value whereby love is attracted to its objects do not always give it the character of a moral act. Love extends to all values, or rather to all objects because of their value, but there is no such thing as 'love of goodness'. Indeed, the love of goodness, as such, is itself evil, in that it involves Pharisaism; for the formula of Pharisaism is the precept 'Love the good' or 'Love men, insofar as they are good', and 'Hate evil, and men insofar as they are evil'. The love of God in its highest form is not to have love 'for' God, the All-merciful—for a mere concept, in effect; it is to participate in His love for the world, and for Himself; in other words it is what the scholastics, the mystics and Saint Augustine before them, called 'amare in Deo'.
