Armstrong, Aurelia:
Spinoza's therapy : Spinoza's approach to self-cultivation

In: Ethics and self-cultivation : Historical and contemporary perspectives / edited by Matthew Dennis and Sander Werkhoven. - New York [e.a.] : Routledge [e.a.], 2018: 30-46. - (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Therapy ; 45)

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Anthropology / psychology / doctrine of affections / body and mind, Previous history (e.g. Descartes, Stoicism)
Subject (individuals): Stoa

English commentary: "Spinoza is often portrayed as following the Stoics in proposing a purely intellectual therapy of the errors that underpin the passions, the passions that hold us in bondage. This chapter argues that this proposal is mistaken by showing that knowledge, instead of eliminating our emotions and desires, functions itself as an affective power" (from the abstract).

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