Singularity, similarity, and exemplarity in Spinoza's philosophy.
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| Title: | Singularity, similarity, and exemplarity in Spinoza's philosophy. |
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| Authors: | Gatens, Moira1 Moira.Gatens@sydney.edu.au |
| Source: | Ethics & Education. May2020, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p200-212. 13p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Human behavior, *Philosophy of education, Example, Uniqueness (Philosophy), Resemblance (Philosophy) |
| People: | Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 |
| Abstract: | In the Preface to Part Four of the Ethics, Spinoza offers the reader an exemplar of human nature. However, Spinoza does not conceive of human nature as a universal in which each human being participates, simply by virtue of being human. Rather, each human being is conceived as singular. Thriving individual lives assume thriving communities composed of (somewhat) like-minded and (somewhat) like-embodied individuals. The model, or exemplar, then, may be considered to play the role of an enabling fiction in his educational and moral philosophy. The approach taken here is to explore Spinoza's notions of singularity, similarity, and exemplarity in relation to the distinctive human capacity to educate the senses and the passions and to cultivate reason, and thereby to flourish. The final section of the paper reads the education of Victor Frankenstein's 'monster' through the lens of Spinoza's philosophy of affect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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