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L’intelligence de la pratique

Le concept de disposition chez Spinoza

The Intelligence of Practice: The Concept of Disposition in Spinoza

If everyone has the power to live according to the guidance of reason, how is it that so few follow it, even though so many claim they do? Some see the best and do the worst, whereas others do the worst believing it is the best. All do everything they can and finally rejoice over what they are. The philosophy of Spinoza explains this human condition. All power is actual. He who can do the most cannot do less, and he who can do the least does so willingly, but cannot do more. Everyone is as...


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Editor's note

Cet ouvrage est publié avec le soutien de l’Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités (IHRIM - UMR 5317)

Illustration de couverture : Bergachtig landschap met rustende herder, Johannes Janson, 1761-1784. Rijksmuseum : [http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.303023].

  • Publisher : ENS Éditions
  • Series : La croisée des chemins
  • Place of publication : Lyon
  • Year of publication : 2019
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 15 octobre 2019
  • EAN (Print version) : 979-10-362-0158-5
  • Electronic EAN : 979-10-362-0160-8
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.enseditions.12984
  • Number of pages : 420 p.

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