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36Spinoza on Learning to Live Together by Susan JamesJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (2): 347-348. 2022.For too long, Spinoza's ethics was misread as an ethics of ideals, in which the most virtuous life possible was said to consist of the life of pure reasoning. The "free man," Spinoza's paragon of virtue, was understood to be the individual who is neither helped nor harmed by anything external. The goal, on this view, was to transcend the life of the body, of the material, and of the political, in order to focus solely on becoming like God by increasing one's store of rational ideas.This, of cour…Read more
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Cavendish vs. Descartes on mechanism and animal soulsIn Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz & Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford University Press. 2019.
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