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  • Spinoza's influence on Lippmann can be seen in two key ideas: first, the role of passions in confusing human judgments; second, the distinction between words.
  • The brief answer is Descartes, Maimonides, the Stoics, but Spinoza was a rare philosopher who thought in an almost clean break with any earlier tradition.
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    Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Spinoza

    About: Maxime Rovere, Le clan Spinoza, Flammarion

    There may be no philosopher in history (with the possible exceptions of Socrates and Nietzsche) who has received greater attention in artistic, literary and popular culture than Bento (Benedictus) de Spinoza (). His life, ideas and influence have been the subject of numerous novels, plays, poems, paintings, sculptures, even musical pieces and opera. His name and his visage have been used in the marketing of various items in the worlds of entertainment, leisure and consumption, from cafés to rock bands to bagels. (By contrast, how many Cartesian novels or Lockean operas or Humean ballets are there? [1])

    Spinoza’s in the Popular Mind

    A relatively simple explanation for Spinoza&#;s unusually high profile outside the walls of academia is at hand. filosof was the most radical and iconoclastic thinker of his time. His ideas on religion, pol

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    Spinoza’s Psychological Theory

    1. The Human Being as Part of Nature

    In the Preface to Part III, Spinoza states his view that all things alike must be understood to follow from the laws of nature:

    The laws and rules of natur, according to which all things happen, and change from one form to another, are always and everywhere the same. So the way of understanding the nature of anything, of whatever kind, must also be the same, viz. through the universal laws of nature.

    Many philosophers have treated the human mind as an exception to otherwise universal natural laws, as a thing that is conscious, that is capable of good and evil, or that can be an uncaused cause of action, for example. Spinoza though insists that human beings are not “outside nature.” Any features or deeds of human beings that seem exceptional, then, must have for Spinoza some explanation in terms of universal, natural laws. That is, if there is any sense at all in saying that a human being

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    Capabilities: From Spinoza to Sen and Beyond*
    Part II: A Spinoza-Sen Economics Research Program

    Jorge Buzaglo(formerly University of Gothenburg, presently in search of funding and affiliation)

    © Copyright Jorge Buzaglo

    “Part I: Spinoza’s Theory of Capabilities” appeared in the last issue

    The Ethics and present-day science


    The psychophysical identity theory in Spinoza’s The Ethics is particularly well adapted for the analysis of the body/mind problem in the framework of present day natural sciences. In particular, evolutionary theory finds its natural foundation in the notion of immanent causation inherent to Substance (God or Nature) &#; that which has itself as its own cause and is not produced by anything external. Particular entities are modifications or modes of the Substance, produced by one another in an infinite chain of causation. According to Henry Atlan (, p. ), “[w]ith such a notion of immanent causality, Evolution can be seen a