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Comment on Spinoza or Leibniz by Jeffrey Bell

Jeffrey Bell — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:33:35 +0000

There is an Ethics in the Ethics, hence the title Spinoza gave this work. An ethics need not presuppose good or evil, and most traditional ethics do not, such as Aristotelian, stoic, and others.

Comment on Spinoza or Leibniz by Hans Fuß

Hans Fuß — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 04:19:40 +0000

…Spinoza abandons the TIE and reworks his ethical problem in his appropriately titled masterpiece, Ethics. There are no ethics in Ethics. If God is Nature, then everything in Nature is right, good, even divine. There can be no bad or evil, therefore no ethics.

Comment on Seneca and Anger by retardedpolyticks

retardedpolyticks — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:08:29 +0000

Marshall,
This is a good lead. I am much obliged to follow this 1998 publication.
Himanshu

Comment on Seneca and Anger by Marshall

Marshall — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:02:02 +0000

If you’re interested in Education at all Nussbaum has an awesome booked called Cultivating Humanity, where she uses Seneca and many other stoic philosophers to help justify the need for Socratic inquiry in liberal arts education.

Comment on Endless Conatus by Vasantha Surya

Vasantha Surya — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:25:09 +0000

“, our conscious decisions to act towards a particular end or goal supervenes upon a conatus that is endless, that is absolutely indeterminate and not to be confused with any determinate ends or goals.” —
I understand this, insofar as it has a bearing on ethics, as an awareness of conatus as the dynamic striving towards eternal life (personified as God, perhaps), which is reflected in thought, word, and deed (without any element of individual ‘will’ or ‘force’ or ‘ego’) …Submitting to the will of God is offering one’s thought, word, and deed to conatus, the reflection of Divine Will within oneself — to the life force within, to do with them as IT will.
From what I know of Spinoza, he was a tranquil and humble person with no Superman image.Paradoxiclly, this is what validates his immensely powerful concept of conatus.

Comment on Deleuze Studies Conference, New Orleans 2012 by Coming Appearances « Larval Subjects .

Coming Appearances « Larval Subjects . — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:15:58 +0000

[...] New Orleans, Deleuze Camp, 3 day class, “Space, Territory, and Aesthetics”. Readings: “Of the [...]

Comment on Reading Spinoza: The Ethics by Peyman Gholami

Peyman Gholami — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:37:48 +0000

and…
11. Antonio Negri.The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza’s Metaphysics and Politics.

Comment on About by Toby Simmons

Toby Simmons — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:11:29 +0000

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Comment on Deleuze Studies Conference website is up! by dmf

dmf — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:20:01 +0000

claire colebrook is always a welcome addition:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/cpl2/blogs/digitaldialogue/2011/04/digital-dialogue-47-narrative.html

Comment on Continental Connections by dmf

dmf — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:12:16 +0000

http://newbooksinphilosophy.com/2011/07/15/robert-pasnau-metaphysical-themes-1247-1671-oxford-up-2011/