ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Descartes’s definition of love and distinction between two kinds of love introduced as intellectual or rational love vs love as a passion, and discusses the role of on the one hand the will and judgment and other hand of the bodily affections in his account of these emotions and in the passions more generally. The analysis shows, it argues, the strong unity of the mind-body composite, and raises questions about the autonomy of the will and self in the strict sense of a rational mind that Descartes wants to defend.
