Singularity, Similarity, and Exemplarity in Spinoza's Philosophy

Autor/in	Gatens, Moira
Titel	Singularity, Similarity, and Exemplarity in Spinoza's Philosophy
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 15 (2020) 2, S.200-212 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gatens, Moira)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
DOI	10.1080/17449642.2020.1731660
Schlagwörter	Educational Philosophy; Moral Values; Ethics; Teaching Methods; Authors; Novels; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Ethik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Author; Autor; Autorin; Novel; Roman; Analogiemodell
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01