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Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
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Journal of Spinoza Studies, 2023 Do minds and ideas connect, interact, or even depend on each other, and if so, how exactly do they connect and interact? How to conceive of the mode and process of minds and ideas being in a network and connected in some way, that is, being ...
Lorina Buhr
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article reinterprets Levinas's account of ethical subjectivity by centering the temporality of the pas encore (“not yet”) and drawing on new materials in Œuvres complètes. I argue that, in Totality and Infinity, eros and ethics are internally continuous: eros generates a responsible not yet of time, secured by fecundity and oriented to ...
Huaiyuan Zhang
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Polymatheia, 2021 Neste artigo, abordaremos a relação entre o Direito Natural e o conceito de conatus contida na filosofia política do pensador holandês Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677), que teorizou uma política fundamentada numa ontologia do necessário e numa ...
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Razão, Conatus e Afetos: : o caminho spinozano para a liberdade [PDF]
This article investigates Spinoza's conception of freedom and beatitude, highlighting the perfection of the intellect and the ordering of affects. For Spinoza, true freedom is not an arbitrary choice, but a rational understanding of the necessary order ...
Ribeiro, Kivina
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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2021 We argue for a reconsideration of the claim that Spinoza’s perfectionist conception of education was ushering in a form of radical humanism distinctly favorable to democratic ideals.
Jasmin Özel, David Beisecker, Joe Ervin
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LUCRETIUS AND SPINOZA OR CLINAMEN AND CONATUS [PDF]
, 2019 Este artigo compara e contrasta dois conceitos filosóficos provenientes de distintas linhagens de pensamento: de um lado, o clinamen de Lucrécio; do outro, o conatus de Espinosa.
Dotto, Pedro Mauricio Garcia
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Relational knowing as method and practice
People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 10, Page 3585-3600, October 2026.Abstract This paper seeks to contribute to (re)building the capacity for embodied, place‐based relational knowing, transforming how we know and thus what we know. What is known, or sought to be known, is relations. How we know these relations is by already being in it: breathing, sensing, moving, listening, responding, affecting and being affected ...
Katie Moon
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O nascimento da psicofísica pelo conatus: plasticidade e circuito do indivíduo em Hobbes
GriotO presente artigo investiga a gênese da psicofísica hobbesiana a partir do conatus, demonstrando que esse conceito opera como princípio genético que faz nascer simultaneamente a descrição do indivíduo como corpo senciente e a plasticidade como ...
Patricia Costa Martinez
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