Spinoza's Ethics of "Ratio": Discovering and Applying a Spinozan Model of Human Nature

Autor/in	Ravven, Heidi M.
Titel	Spinoza's Ethics of "Ratio": Discovering and Applying a Spinozan Model of Human Nature
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 15 (2020) 2, S.232-246 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
DOI	10.1080/17449642.2020.1732154
Schlagwörter	Philosophy; Ethics; Freedom; Praxis; Ethical Instruction; Moral Development; Transformative Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Philosophie; Ethik; Freiheit; Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Moralische Entwicklung; Pädagogische Transformation
Abstract	I argue that Spinoza attributes to society the role of moral educator, a role that is to be carried out via Religion and Politics and hence also via an educational system. In his account, the social body is given the task of applying and transmitting a notion of virtue whose criterion is enhanced freedom, yet that freedom paradoxically must be acquired initially via authoritative coercive rules of praxis. The aim is to achieve an infinite broadening of perspective upon oneself and upon the world and a consequent transformation of one's motivations and desires from narrowly self-serving to infinitely inclusive. Intellectual virtue is exposed as the necessary and only true fulfillment of the virtue of moral models for it has achieved 'the knowledge of the union that the mind has with the whole of Nature.' Yet that intellectual virtue is not ready to hand but must be taught, and teaching necessarily entails an initial measure of authoritative transmission and even coercion, and hence moral models to be internalized. (As Provided).
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