The Affirmative Mind: Spinoza on Striving under the Attribute of Thought
In the Ethics, Spinoza advances two apparently irreconcilable construals of will [voluntas]. Initially, he presents will as a shorthand way of referring to the volitions that all ideas involve, namely affirmations and negations. But just a few propositions later, he defines it as striving when it is...
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Michigan Publishing
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/4630/ |