# Intellectual love of God

- Id: `intellectual_love`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/intellectual-love-of-god/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `d2f177bbe888ea877aa70bc2c4443f1b62b708f8370e201ed6606a9363a4f6ae`

## Summary

For Spinoza, intellectual love of God is the joy arising from intuitive knowledge of divine and natural necessity.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 685 passages across 5 works, including The Gay Science, Twilight of the Idols, Ethics, English Manifestation. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:spinoza.ethics_en:section-0254",
    "passage:nietzsche.twilight_idols:b0113",
    "passage:nietzsche.gay_science:b0443"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "amour intellectuel",
    "intellectual love of god",
    "amor intellectualis"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 5,
    "passages": 685,
    "thinkers": 2,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.gay_science",
        "title": "The Gay Science",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/gay-science/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.twilight_idols",
        "title": "Twilight of the Idols",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/twilight-idols/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.ethics_en",
        "title": "Ethics, English Manifestation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/ethics-en/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.ethics_fr",
        "title": "Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/ethics-fr/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.short_treatise_fr",
        "title": "Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, French Manifestation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/short-treatise-fr/"
    }
]
```