Williams, Caroline:
Revisiting Spinoza's Concept of 'Conatus' : Degrees of Autonomy

In: Spinoza and Relational Autonomy : Being with Others  / Armstrong, Aurelia ; Green, Keith ; Sangiacomo, Andrea (Hrsg./eds.). - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019: [115]-131.

Contains bibliography: 129-131

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Anthropology / psychology / doctrine of affections / body and mind, Ethics, Philosophy of politics and law, Comparison of theories
Subject: E, PPC/CM

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English commentary: "Spinoza's philosophy recues autonomy from the liberal tradition. In particular it attends to the risk of detachment and solitude present in liberal theories of reesom without extinguishing individuality or simply 'absorbing' it into the whole of Nature. This elementary, first-order relationality involves a reciprocity of interdependent and interconnected processes of individuation that is able to hold in productive tension the collective and the individual elements present within modern conceptions of autonomy." (p. 126)

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