Kisner, Matthew:
Spinoza on Natures : Aristotelian and Mechanistic Routes to Relational Autonomy

In: Spinoza and Relational Autonomy : Being with Others  / Armstrong, Aurelia ; Green, Keith ; Sangiacomo, Andrea (Hrsg./eds.). - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019: [74]-97.

Contains bibliography: 95-97

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Metaphysics / ontology, Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Philosophy of nature, Anthropology / psychology / doctrine of affections / body and mind, Ethics, Theory of society, Comparison of theories
Subject: E
Subject (individuals): Aristoteles [Aristotle] ; Descartes, René

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: "Spinoza's effort to shore up difficulties with mechanistic efforts to individuate bodies has the effext of expanding the boundaries of the individual: I am not just this mind and body, but also a part of other collective individuals - my family, my university, the passangers on the bus, my nation, and so forth. According to this view, I may be autonomous not just because of how my internations with other things promote and exercise my own indidivual striving, but also because they promoote and exercise the striving of the various group and collective identities to which I belong... Thus, the mechanistic route is broad in the sense that it expands the boundaries of the individual, which provides a greater variety of ways that external things and our relationship with them can promote an individual's autonomy." (p. 89)

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