Spinoza and the stoics power, politics and the passions /

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Main Author: DeBrabander, Firmin
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, c2007.
Series:Continuum studies in philosophy.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • The foundation of perfectionism
  • Pantheism and determinism
  • Vital endeavor and the ground of virtue
  • The diagnosis of the passions
  • A this-worldly salvation
  • Psychotherapy and virtue
  • 'What is in my power to do'
  • Agreeing with nature
  • The sociality of virtue
  • A. spinoza's critique of perfectionism
  • 'Nothing is more advantageous to man than man'
  • Sociality and the diffusion of enlightenment
  • Stoic political reason
  • Cosmopolis and political duty
  • The predicament of politics
  • The apotheosis of the free man
  • Reason of state
  • State of nature, nature of state
  • Political right and the most natural state
  • The highest form of devotion
  • Spinoza's liberalism
  • The philosopher in the state
  • Christ, the Apostles and Solomon : models of public philosophers?
  • Philosophical caution, political interest.