Spinoza and the Stoics

Power, Politics and the Passions

AvFirmin DeBrabander

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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 to the life of virtue? And what is the political place and public role of the philosopher as a practitioner of ethics? In examining Spinoza's Ethics, his most important and widely-read work, and exploring the ways in which this work echoes Stoic themes regarding the public behaviour of the philosopher, the author seeks to answer these key questions and thus makes a fascinating contribution to the study of moral and political philosophy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-01-15
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441143662
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Serie:Continuum Studies in Philosophy

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Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Firmin DeBrabander is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art, USA.

Recensioner i media

Mentioned in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23 2007, volume LIII, No. 29.

Innehållsförteckning

List of AbbreviationsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Foundation of Perfectionism A. Pantheism and determinism B. Vital endeavor and the ground of virtue C. The diagnosis of the passions D. A this-worldly salvation Chapter 2. Psychotherapy and VirtueA. "What is in my power to do" B. Agreeing with nature Chapter 3. The Sociality of VirtueA. Spinoza's critique of perfectionism B. "Nothing is more advantageous to man than man" C. Sociality and the diffusion of enlightenment Chapter 4. Stoic Political ReasonA. Cosmopolis and political duty B. The predicament of politics C. The apotheosis of the free man Chapter 5. Reason of StateA. State of nature, nature of state B. Political right and the most natur