ABSTRACT

There are types of value which are essentially related to personality as their vehicle, and which can only attach to a person; 'virtues', for example, are values of this type. Love for the value of persons, that is for the person as a reality mediated in personal value, is moral love in the full sense of the term. This chapter expresses that the love which has moral value is not that which pays loving regard to a person for having such and such qualities, pursuing such and such activities, or for possessing talents, beauty or virtue; it is that love which incorporates these qualities, activities and gifts into its object, because they belong to that individual person. Personality is that unity of substance, baffling observation and eluding analysis, which the individual experiences as inherent in all the acts he performs.