Susan James

Spinoza on Learning to Live Together (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Philosophising, as Spinoza conceives it, is the project of learning to live joyfully. Yet this is also a matter of learning to live together, and the surest manifestation of philosophical insight is the capacity to sustain a harmonious way of life. Here, Susan James defends this overall interpretation of Spinoza's philosophy and explores its bearing on contemporary philosophical debates around issues such as religious toleration, putting our knowledge to work, and the environmental crisis. Part I focuses on Spinoza's epistemology. Philosophical understanding empowers us by giving us access to truths about ourselves and the world, and by motivating us to act on them. It gives us reasons for living together and enhances our ability to live co-operatively. Part II takes up Spinoza's claim that, to cultivate this kind of understanding, we need to live together in political communities. It explores his analysis of how states can develop a co-operative ethos. Finally, living joyfully compels us to look beyond the state to our relationship with the rest of nature. James concludes with discussions of some of the virtues this requires.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191022135
• Artikelnr.: 60397462

Autorenporträt

Susan James is a professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College London. Her main areas of interest are early-modern philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of art. She is the author of Passion and Action: The Emotions in Early-Modern Philosophy (Oxford, 1997) and Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Theologico-Political Treatise (Oxford, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Philosophy as the Art of Living Together
Part I. Learning to Live Together
Creating Rational Understanding: Spinoza as a Social Epistemologist
When Does Truth Matter? The Relation Between Theology and Philosophy
Spinoza on Superstition: Coming to Terms with Fear
Narrative as a Means to Freedom: Spinoza on the Uses of Imagination
Responding Emotionally to Fiction: A Spinozist Approach
Part II. The Politics of Living Together
Law and Sovereignty in Spinoza's Politics
Natural Rights as Powers to Act
Democracy and the Good Life in Spinoza's Philosophy
Freedom, Slavery and the Passions
Freedom of Conscience and Civic Peace: Spinoza on Piety
Part III. Philosophical Communities
Freedom and Nature: A Spinozist Invitation
The Affective Cost of Philosophical Self-Transformation
Fortitude: Living in the Light of our Knowledge