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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vardoulakis, Dimitris (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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.