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Spinoza and the stoics :

9780826493934 (hbk.)

b522068

Spinoza and the stoics :

[Book]

power, politics and the passions /

Firmin DeBrabander

New York :

Continuum,

c2007

viii, 147 p. ;

24 cm

Continuum studies in philosophy

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-147) and index

The foundation of perfectionism -- Pantheism and determinism -- Vital endeavor and the ground of virtue -- The diagnosis of the passions -- A this-worldly salvation -- Psychotherapy and virtue -- 'What is in my power to do' -- Agreeing with nature -- The sociality of virtue -- A. spinoza's critique of perfectionism -- 'Nothing is more advantageous to man than man' -- Sociality and the diffusion of enlightenment -- Stoic political reason -- Cosmopolis and political duty -- The predicament of politics -- The apotheosis of the free man -- Reason of state -- State of nature, nature of state -- Political right and the most natural state -- The highest form of devotion -- Spinoza's liberalism -- The philosopher in the state -- Christ, the Apostles and Solomon : models of public philosophers? -- Philosophical caution, political interest

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Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677

Ethics

Political science-- Philosophy

Stoics

DeBrabander, Firmin

20070426171659.0

[Book]

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