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84Spinoza on Free Will and FreedomInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2023.This article provides an overview of Spinoza's positions on determinism, free will, and freedom framed by an attempt to make sense of a Spinozistic ethical project that simultaneously denies free will as an illusion while advocating the significance of human freedom for the good life. Within this context, other key doctrines in Spinoza's moral psychology are explored including his view of the will, passions, rational activity, and responsibility.
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33Doing Without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems (edited book)Lexington Books. 2015.Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems introduces Spinoza into the current discussion of the possibility of morality without free will, as it was he who first accomplished such a task. While his contemporaries reacted with shock to his determinist philosophy, today more people are ready to take seriously Spinoza's moral philosophy, which provides a foundation for our understanding of responsibility, akrasia, and moral values without the need for free will.
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1Moral responsibility without free will: Spinoza's social approachIn Ursula Goldenbaum & Christopher Kluz (eds.), Doing Without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems, Lexington Books. 2015.This article first argues that Spinoza has a unique solution to the contemporary compatibility problem because his philosophy distinguished between an incompatibilist sense of free will and a compatibilist sense of freedom. For this reason, he can be interpreted as arguing for both positions. Secondly, it argues that Spinoza view of responsibility is divorced from his position on both free will and freedom. Rather Spinoza understands responsibility in terms of naturalistic consequences resulting…Read more
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Introduction: doing without free will: Spinoza and contemporary moral problemsIn Ursula Goldenbaum & Christopher Kluz (eds.), Doing Without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems, Lexington Books. 2015.
Christopher Kluz
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ShenzhenAssistant Professor
Areas of Specialization
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Moral Psychology |
History of Political Philosophy |