Man’s fiction about absolute power over affective life and actions. A reading by Baruch Spinoza
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Affective life, Servitude, Rationality, Liberty.Abstract
In this article the argument is that for Spinoza human beings cannot have absolute control over their affective life and neither over the actions that derive from it. But they can appeal to reason to nuance the emergence of affective power in human consciousness. The arrival to freedom is generated only by reasoning when it reflects on affective life. According to Spinoza reason and affection are linked to each other and therefore complement each other. Sometimes the reason manages to maintain the affection settled by explaining its causes, but the affective life is stronger when it submits to reason.Downloads
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2019-06-10
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Viveros Chavarría, E. F. (2019). Man’s fiction about absolute power over affective life and actions. A reading by Baruch Spinoza. Revista Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, (3), 218–224. https://doi.org/10.21501/25907565.3267
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