ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the forms, modes and kinds of love and hatred. Corresponding to the basic division of all acts into vital acts of the body, purely mental acts of the self, and spiritual acts of the person, love and hatred existing in three forms: spiritual love of the person, mental love of the individual self, and vital or passionate love. Although vital, mental and spiritual acts are intrinsically different in themselves, and are felt as different, without prior reference to their source, they do have an essential affinity with these sources, namely the body, the self and the person. The highest form of love is accordingly that which relates to objects, having the intrinsic value of holiness; mental love is that which the self has for cultural values of any kind; while vital love relates to the 'noble'. Objects whose value is simply that of being 'pleasant', engender neither love nor hatred.
