The Philosophy of Love

Good, and first through the Useful, and then through the Delectable: under which he speaks of certain moral virtues and their opposites: speaking also of the conjunction of love and desire within the Delectable; of the cause of their diversity within these two Goods; which of the two—the Useful or the Delectable—is more extensive; and whether they may be found together in the same beloved object. Afterward, he speaks of love and desire toward the Honest The "Honest" (Latin: bonum honestum) refers to that which is morally good or virtuous for its own sake, rather than for pleasure or utility.: in what way it resembles the Delectable and the Useful; in what way and how it is different from them; and what the cause of this is. From there, he deduces under which lovable Good belong health, children, marriage, power original: "Dominations", honors, friendship, and the love toward God, discoursing by way of intellectual habits Habitudes: fixed dispositions of the soul or mind, such as wisdom or art, acquired through study or practice, and by several divine matters, to finally show wherein Happiness original: "Felicité" — the ultimate state of human flourishing or blessedness lies. That being done, he explains under which Good he loves Sophia Sophia represents Wisdom; Philo is testing whether his love for her is merely for pleasure or for a higher, "Honest" purpose., to demonstrate the love that lovers of women can say they have: where he speaks, among other things, of one love that is the son of desire, and of another love that is the father of desire and the son of cognitive Reason original: "Raison cognoscitiue" — the faculty of the mind that perceives, knows, and understands truth: that there are two reasons: and by which of the two love does not allow itself to be governed: concluding, finally, that the love of Man for Woman must be caused by the cognitive faculty, and not by appe-