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Duties owed to Divine love. Our will is only a continuous impression of the love God bears toward Himself, Who alone is the true good. Evil cannot be loved, but that which is neither good nor evil can be taken for an evil. Similarly we cannot hate the good, but the true good is, in effect, evil to the wicked, being the cause of their misery. In order that God may be seen by us as good, our love must be like His, always submissive to Divine law. Duties.
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Malebranche, N. (1993). Chapter Four. In: Treatise on Ethics (1684). International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées, vol 133. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2480-5_18
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