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Spinoza and the stoics : power, politics and the passions / Firmin DeBrabander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeBrabander, Firmin, author.
- Series:
- Continuum studies in philosophy.
- Continuum studies in philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Continuum Publishing Group, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This important book examines Spinoza's moral and political philosophy. Specifically it considers Spinoza's engagement with the themes of Stoicism and his significant contribution to the origins of the European Enlightenment. Firmin DeBrabander explores the problematic view of the relationship between ethics and politics that Spinoza apparently inherited from the Stoics and in so doing asks some important questions that contribute to a crucial contemporary debate. Does ethics provide any foundation for political theory and if so in what way? Likewise, does politics contribute anything essential
- Contents:
- The foundation of perfectionism
- Pantheism and determinism
- Vital endeavor and the ground of virtue
- The diagnosis of the passions
- A this-worldly salvation
- Psychotherapy and virtue
- 'What is in my power to do'
- Agreeing with nature
- The sociality of virtue
- A. spinoza's critique of perfectionism
- 'Nothing is more advantageous to man than man'
- Sociality and the diffusion of enlightenment
- Stoic political reason
- Cosmopolis and political duty
- The predicament of politics
- The apotheosis of the free man
- Reason of state
- State of nature, nature of state
- Political right and the most natural state
- The highest form of devotion
- Spinoza's liberalism
- The philosopher in the state
- Christ, the Apostles and Solomon : models of public philosophers?
- Philosophical caution, political interest.
- Notes:
- include index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613205872
- 9781283205870
- 1283205874
- 9781441143662
- 1441143661
- OCLC:
- 745866122
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