Spinoza on Learning to Live Together by James, Susan

Spinoza on Learning to Live Together

Philosophising, as Spinoza conceives it, is the project of learning to live joyfully. Yet this is also...
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Author: Susan James
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Spinoza on Learning to Live Together by James, Susan

Spinoza on Learning to Live Together

€172,38

Spinoza on Learning to Live Together

€172,38
Author: Susan James
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Philosophising, as Spinoza conceives it, is the project of learning to live joyfully. Yet this is also a matter of learning to live together, and the surest manifestation of philosophical insight is the capacity to sustain a harmonious way of life. Here, Susan James defends this overall interpretation of Spinoza's philosophy and explores its bearing on contemporary philosophical debates around issues such as religious toleration, putting our knowledge to work, and the environmental crisis.

Part I focuses on Spinoza's epistemology. Philosophical understanding empowers us by giving us access to truths about ourselves and the world, and by motivating us to act on them. It gives us reasons for living together and enhances our ability to live co-operatively. Part II takes up Spinoza's claim that, to cultivate this kind of understanding, we need to live together in political communities. It explores his analysis of how states can develop a co-operative ethos. Finally, living joyfully compels us to look beyond the state to our relationship with the rest of nature. James concludes with discussions of some of the virtues this requires.


Author: Susan James
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/21/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780198713074


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2021

About the Author

Susan James, Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck College London

Susan James is a professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College London. Her main areas of interest are early-modern philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of art. She is the author of Passion and Action: The Emotions in Early-Modern Philosophy (Oxford, 1997) and
Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Theologico-Political Treatise (Oxford, 2012).

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