Renz, Ursula:
Epistemic Autonomy in Descartes, Spinoza and Kant : The Value of Thinking for Oneself

In: Spinoza and Relational Autonomy : Being with Others  / Armstrong, Aurelia ; Green, Keith ; Sangiacomo, Andrea (Hrsg./eds.). - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019: [33]-49.

Contains bibliography: 48-49
Mention of Spinoza: 2. Individualism and Perfectionalism and the Mature Spinoza: 36-41 ; ferner/further: 33-34, 41-42

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Ethics, Theory of society
Subject: E, Ep.
Subject (individuals): Descartes, René ; Kant, Immanuel

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: "... we should focus on these accounts" - i.e. "for maintaining epistemic individualism" - "that are most likley tp provide good reasons for individualism, and these are to be found, I think, in the rational rather than in the empiristic tradition. ... In the end, it will turn out, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, that both Spinoza and Kant, while adopting a rather critical stance toward the Cartesian concept formation, remained loyal to what may be considered Descartes' reasons for his epistemic individualism."

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