A given statement may be plausible, well founded or true. An individual action may be judged courageous, useful or good. Human beings are judged as well, for statements or actions that invite such evaluations, though the terms used may be different: a person may be described as truthful and virtuous, clever and happy. Epistemology and ethics - the theories that justify theoretical and practical judgements - may address not only the criteria used to assess states of belief, assertions, knowledge and the like, actions, omissions and feelings, but also the people that give rise to them. Nowadays, the issue of when and how a human being becomes clever, truthful, good or happy is less a matter of philosophy and more a question for religion, psyc...
Spinoza is the rationalist philosopher par excellence, making every conceivable emancipatory claim f...
This paper finds its inspiration in the work of the seventeenth century philosopher Benedict de Spin...
This paper finds its inspiration in the work of the seventeenth century philosopher Benedict de Spin...
Despite differences in personal definitions of what it means to be good, one philosopher, Spinoza, a...
The problem addressed in this work is how one can become the free person who only, or primarily, liv...
<p>While both intuitive knowledge (<italic>scientia intuitiva</italic>) and reason (<italic>ratio</i...
This thesis examines Spinoza’s claim that rational benevolence is crucial to human well-being (‘the ...
Spinoza's moral philosopher represents his most concerted attempt to come to terms with th...
In this paper I examine the question whether Spinoza can account for the necessity of death. I argue...
The purpose of this dissertation is to unearth the ethical individual in Spinoza\u27s metaphysics. L...
Spinoza\u27s ethics is founded on the idea that we are egoists who should do nothing but search our ...
Spinoza\u27s ethics is founded on the idea that we are egoists who should do nothing but search our ...
That human beings have the potential for rationality and the ability to cultivate it is a fact of hu...
The purpose of moral exemplarism is to render moral theory practically functional. It deals with h...
In recent years, character education and virtue ethics have undergone a form of renaissance in the p...
Spinoza is the rationalist philosopher par excellence, making every conceivable emancipatory claim f...
This paper finds its inspiration in the work of the seventeenth century philosopher Benedict de Spin...
This paper finds its inspiration in the work of the seventeenth century philosopher Benedict de Spin...
Despite differences in personal definitions of what it means to be good, one philosopher, Spinoza, a...
The problem addressed in this work is how one can become the free person who only, or primarily, liv...
<p>While both intuitive knowledge (<italic>scientia intuitiva</italic>) and reason (<italic>ratio</i...
This thesis examines Spinoza’s claim that rational benevolence is crucial to human well-being (‘the ...
Spinoza's moral philosopher represents his most concerted attempt to come to terms with th...
In this paper I examine the question whether Spinoza can account for the necessity of death. I argue...
The purpose of this dissertation is to unearth the ethical individual in Spinoza\u27s metaphysics. L...
Spinoza\u27s ethics is founded on the idea that we are egoists who should do nothing but search our ...
Spinoza\u27s ethics is founded on the idea that we are egoists who should do nothing but search our ...
That human beings have the potential for rationality and the ability to cultivate it is a fact of hu...
The purpose of moral exemplarism is to render moral theory practically functional. It deals with h...
In recent years, character education and virtue ethics have undergone a form of renaissance in the p...
Spinoza is the rationalist philosopher par excellence, making every conceivable emancipatory claim f...
This paper finds its inspiration in the work of the seventeenth century philosopher Benedict de Spin...
This paper finds its inspiration in the work of the seventeenth century philosopher Benedict de Spin...