Ravven, Heidi M.:
Spinoza's Path from Imaginative Transindividuality to Intuitive and Rational Autonomy : From Fusion, Confusion and Fragmentation to Moral Integrity

In: Spinoza and Relational Autonomy : Being with Others  / Armstrong, Aurelia ; Green, Keith ; Sangiacomo, Andrea (Hrsg./eds.). - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019: [98]-114.

Contains bibliography: 114

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Anthropology / psychology / doctrine of affections / body and mind, Ethics, Theory of society, Comparison of theories
Subject: E, TTP

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English commentary: "Rather than a weak and attenuated version of relational autonomy understood as a theory in which social relationships are merely needed by the individual for her autonomy to pay out effectively, Spinoza's philosophical vision suggests a stronger version. Instead, transindividual relations are constitutive of persons at every stage of cognitive-affective development, on the one hand, and, on the other, an infinitely expansive internal self-constitution of the individual by her (causal) relations is a necessary condition of her fulfilment of the end. Seen from an alternative perspective as the achievment of individuation, the fullest individual causal self-explanation, the state of infinite constitutive relations, is not only necessary but sufficient." (p. 112)

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