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03107aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 53E7E6B68E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200505011818 008 190815t20192019enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0198847904 020 $a 9780198847908 035 $a (OCoLC)1112130943 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d PTS $d SILO 050 4 $a B3998 S35 2019 050 14 $a B3998 S26 2019 100 1 $a Sangiacomo, Andrea, $d 1986- $e author. 245 10 $a Spinoza on reason, passions, and the supreme good / $c Andrea Sangiacomo. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a x, 244 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index. 520 8 $a "Spinoza's thought is at the centre of an ever growing interest. Spinoza's moral philosophy, in particular, points to a radical way of understanding how human beings can become free and enjoy supreme happiness. And yet, there is still much disagreement about how exactly Spinoza's recipe is supposed to work. For long time, Spinoza has been presented as an arch rationalist who would identify in the purely intellectual cultivation of reason the key for ethical progress.0Andrea Sangiacomo offers a new understanding of Spinoza's project, by showing how he himself struggled during his career to develop a moral philosophy that could speak to human beings as they actually are (imperfect, passionate, often not very rational). Spinoza's views significantly evolved over time. In his early writings, Spinoza's account of ethical progress towards the Supreme Good relies mostly on the idea that the mind can build on its innate knowledge to resist the power of the passions. Although appropriate social conditions may support the individual's pursuit of the Supreme Good, achieving it does not depend essentially on social factors. In Spinoza's later writings, however, the emphasis shifts towards the mind's need to rely on appropriate forms of social cooperation.0Reason becomes the mental expression of the way the human body interacts with external causes on the basis of some degree of agreement in nature with them. The greater the agreement, the greater the power of reason to adequately understand universal features as well as more specific traits of the external causes. In the case of human beings, certain kinds of social cooperation are crucial for the development of reason. This view has crucial ramifications for Spinoza's account of how individuals can progress towards the Supreme Good and how a political science based on Spinoza's principles can contribute to this goal."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Spinoza, Benedictus de, $d 1632-1677. 650 0 $a Ethics $x History $y 17th century. 600 17 $a Spinoza, Benedictus de, $d 1632-1677. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00031382 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317014005.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103015046.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=53E7E6B68E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search