Green, Keith:
Spinoza on Affirmation, 'Anima' and Autonomy : 'Shattered Spirits'

In: Spinoza and Relational Autonomy : Being with Others  / Armstrong, Aurelia ; Green, Keith ; Sangiacomo, Andrea (Hrsg./eds.). - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019: [164]-193.

Contains bibliography: 147-148

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

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: "... on Spioza's view, having (1) adequate ideas of one own's nature or power, (2) adequate ideas of the nature that cause one's motivationally salient affects, and (3) a knowledge of the conditions that optimise one's power to persevere and extend one's 'power of mind' are also reqired in order to 'own' the affects and desires that will move one to act to the end of one's own 'good' as well as that of other natures that agree with one's own. Spinoza anticipates not only a relational conception of autonomy, and not only for those whose 'autonomy' is merely phenomenal, but a conception of autonomy that presupposes a substantive conception of human 'good'." (p. 188)

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