 Love is central in McTaggart’s theory of the good. Love is not to be identified with benevolence, which McTaggart did not regard as an emotion but rather as a desire to do good for others. Furthermore, love is not to be identified with sympathy or sexual desire, but may occasion both. Love is not invariably caused by pleasure and it does not invariably cause pleasure. We might be caused to love someone because of that person’s qualities, but we do not love that person’s qualities but rather the person himself. We can love a person whom we do not believe to be good.