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Author DeBrabander, Firmin.

Title Spinoza and the stoics : power, politics and the passions / Firmin DeBrabander.

Publication Info. London : Continuum, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 147 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Originally published: 2007.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index.
Contents 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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Subject Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Ethics.
Ethics.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Stoics.
Stoics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: DeBrabander, Firmin. Spinoza and the stoics. London : Continuum, 2009 9780826421814 (OCoLC)277203970
ISBN 9780826421814 (electronic book)
0826421814 (electronic book)
9781441143662 (electronic book)
1441143661 (electronic book)