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27Spinoza’s Normative EthicsCanadian 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.
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79Hobbes's reply to the foolPhilosophy Compass 2 (1). 2006.The objection Hobbes raises in the voice of the Fool against his own argument is, apparently, that it is sometimes rational to break covenant. Hobbes's answer is puzzling, both because it seems implausible and also because it seems at odds with some of his own views. This article reviews several strategies critics have taken in trying to show that Hobbes's answer is more plausible than it seems and one attempt to show that the Fool's objection concerns the action of breaking covenant only indire…Read more
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63Spinoza's summum bonumPacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2). 2005.: As Spinoza presents it, the knowledge of God is knowledge, primarily, of oneself and, secondarily, of other things. Without this know‐ledge, a mind may not consciously desire to persevere in being. That is why Spinoza claims that the knowledge of God is the most useful thing to the mind at IVP28. He claims that the knowledge of God is the highest good, however, not because it is instrumental to perseverance, but because it is also the best among those goods that we seek for their own sakes. It…Read more
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94Change and the eternal part of the mind in SpinozaPacific Philosophical Quarterly 91 (3): 369-384. 2010.Spinoza insists that we can during the course of our lives increase that part of the mind that is constituted by knowledge, but he also calls that part of the mind its eternal part. How can what is eternal increase? I defend an interpretation on which there is a sense in which the eternal part of the mind can become greater without changing intrinsically at all
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63The Spiritual Automaton: Spinoza’s Science of the Mind by Eugene MarshallJournal of the History of Philosophy 52 (4): 846-847. 2014.
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77Spinoza on Human Freedom: Reason, Autonomy, and the Good LifeBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (1). 2012.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 195-198, January 2012
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450Paul-Henri thiry (baron) d'holbachStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2014.Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach was a philosopher, translator, and prominent social figure of the French Enlightenment. In his philosophical writings Holbach developed a deterministic and materialistic metaphysics which grounded his polemics against organized religion and his utilitarian ethical and political theory. As a translator, Holbach made significant contributions to the European Enlightenment in science and religion. He translated German works on chemistry and geology into French, sum…Read more
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148Theories About Consciousness in Spinoza's EthicsPhilosophical Review 119 (4): 531-563. 2010.Spinoza's remarks about consciousness in the Ethics constitute two theories about conscious experience and knowledge. Several remarks, including 3p9 and 4p8, make the point that self knowledge—an especially valuable good for Spinoza—is not available to introspection. We are, as a matter of course, conscious of ourselves, but we do not, as a matter of course, know ourselves. A second group of remarks, all of which occur in part 5 of the Ethics, emphasizes a different point about consciousness and…Read more
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123Hobbes on Resistance: Defying the Leviathan, by Susanne SreedharMind 121 (484): 1128-1131. 2012.
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149Review of Michael Della Rocca, Spinoza (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (2). 2009.
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1The anatomy of the passionsIn Olli Koistinen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 188--222. 2009.