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" Spinoza and the stoics : "
Firmin DeBrabander
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BL
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699879
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b522068
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DeBrabander, Firmin
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Spinoza and the stoics : : power, politics and the passions /\ Firmin DeBrabander
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, c2007
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Continuum studies in philosophy
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viii, 147 p. ;; 24 cm
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9780826493934 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-147) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Ethics
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Political science-- Philosophy
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Stoics
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B3998.D325 2007
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B3998.D325 2007
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