 Second, following the practice of many scholastics, James distinguished between two forms of love: the “love of desire” or “love of covetousness” (amor concupiscentiae), which he defined as the “love of some good which we want for ourselves or for others,” and the love of friendship (amor amicitiae), or the love of someone for their own sake. Although James believed that rational creatures love God in both these ways, he was clear that the debate about whether or not man loves himself more than God or the converse concerned only the love of friendship; the debate, then, was about whether man naturally loves himself for his own sake more than he loves God for his own sake—which was the view James defended—or the converse. 