University of California, San Diego
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2000
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
PhilPapers Editorships
Spinoza: Ethical Theory
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    Spinoza’s Normative Ethics
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (3): 371-391. 2007.
    Spinoza presents his ethics using a variety of terminologies. Propositions that are, or at least might be taken for, normative include only very few explicit guidelines for action. I will take this claim from Vp10s to be one such guideline:Vp10s: So that we may always have this rule of reason ready when it is needed, we should think and meditate often about common human wrongs and how and in what way they may best be driven away by nobility.