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VII - Spinoza’s unquiet acquiescentia
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dc.contributor.author | Xavier Douglas, Alexander | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-27T23:42:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-27T23:42:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-07 | |
dc.identifier | 268257465 | |
dc.identifier | b81d52b1-87ec-4cfd-8047-f088dddd07c0 | |
dc.identifier | 85101043209 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Xavier Douglas , A 2020 , ' VII - Spinoza’s unquiet acquiescentia ' , Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , vol. 120 , no. 2 , pp. 145-163 . https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoaa008 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0066-7374 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-9486-8991/work/75248685 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/25457 | |
dc.description.abstract | For Spinoza, the highest thing we can hope for is acquiescentia in se ipso—acquiescence in oneself. As an ethical ideal, this might appear as a complacent quietism, a licence to accept the way you are and give up hope of improving either yourself or the world. I argue that the opposite is the case. Self-acquiescence in Spinoza’s sense is a very challenging goal: it requires a form of self-understanding that is extremely difficult to attain. It also involves occupying a daring and radical political position, one that obstructs the psychological mechanisms by which political power is typically maintained. | |
dc.format.extent | 320285 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society | en |
dc.subject | B Philosophy (General) | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | B1 | en |
dc.title | VII - Spinoza’s unquiet acquiescentia | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Philosophy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoaa008 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2022-05-28 |
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