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Spinoza, the Epicurean : authority and utility in materialism /
"Through a radical new reading of the Theological Political Treatise, Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the major source of Spinoza's materialism is the Epicurean tradition that re-emerges in modernity when manuscripts by Epicurus and Lucretius are rediscovered. This reconsideration of Spin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Spinoza studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preamble
- Introduction : why is Spinoza an Epicurean?
- Freedom as overcoming the fear of death : the dialectic of authority and utility in the preface
- The power of error : Moses, the prophets and the people
- Philonomianism : law and origin of finitude
- Political monism : the primacy of utility over authority
- Love your friend as yourself : the neighbor and the politics of biblical hermeneutics
- The freedom to philosophise : the two paths to virtue
- Fear and power : natural right and authorisation in Spinoza and Hobbes
- Theocracy : on the state of authority
- The authority to abrogate : the two paths to virtue and the internal enemy
- Conclusion : the limitation of Spinoza's Epicureanism.