Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV
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Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV is the section of Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece that examines human bondage to the passions and outlines the path toward rational virtue and freedom.
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| Spinoza's Ethics | 1 |
| Spinoza, Ethics | 1 |
| Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV Context triple: [Spinoza, Ethics, Part I, relatedWork, Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV]
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Spinoza, Ethics, Part III
Spinoza, Ethics, Part III is the section of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece that systematically analyzes the nature and dynamics of human emotions within his rationalist, geometric framework.
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Spinoza, Ethics, Part I
"Spinoza, Ethics, Part I" is the opening section of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece in which he lays out his rigorous, geometrically structured metaphysics, including his identification of God with Nature.
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Spinoza’s letters
Spinoza’s letters are a collection of Baruch Spinoza’s personal and philosophical correspondence that illuminate his ideas, relationships, and intellectual context.
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Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
"Spinoza: Practical Philosophy" is a philosophical study by Gilles Deleuze that interprets Baruch Spinoza’s thought as a radical ethics of joy, power, and lived practice rather than a purely abstract metaphysics.
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Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences
Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences is the concluding section of John Stuart Mill’s *A System of Logic* that develops his influential account of the methods and philosophical foundations of the social and moral sciences.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV Target entity description: Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV is the section of Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece that examines human bondage to the passions and outlines the path toward rational virtue and freedom.
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A.
Spinoza, Ethics, Part III
Spinoza, Ethics, Part III is the section of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece that systematically analyzes the nature and dynamics of human emotions within his rationalist, geometric framework.
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B.
Spinoza, Ethics, Part I
"Spinoza, Ethics, Part I" is the opening section of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical masterpiece in which he lays out his rigorous, geometrically structured metaphysics, including his identification of God with Nature.
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C.
Spinoza’s letters
Spinoza’s letters are a collection of Baruch Spinoza’s personal and philosophical correspondence that illuminate his ideas, relationships, and intellectual context.
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D.
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
"Spinoza: Practical Philosophy" is a philosophical study by Gilles Deleuze that interprets Baruch Spinoza’s thought as a radical ethics of joy, power, and lived practice rather than a purely abstract metaphysics.
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E.
Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences
Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences is the concluding section of John Stuart Mill’s *A System of Logic* that develops his influential account of the methods and philosophical foundations of the social and moral sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | philosophical work section ⓘ |
| aimsAt |
outlining the path to human freedom
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showing how reason can moderate the passions ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle | Ethics, Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions ⓘ |
| arguesThat |
a free person is led by reason rather than by passions
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human beings are naturally subject to passions ⓘ understanding our affects increases our power over them ⓘ virtue consists in living according to the guidance of reason ⓘ |
| author | Baruch Spinoza ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
bondage as domination by passive affects
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conatus ⓘ freedom as understanding necessity ⓘ virtue as power of acting ⓘ |
| contains |
axioms
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corollaries ⓘ definitions ⓘ propositions ⓘ scholia ⓘ |
| defines |
evil as what hinders our power of acting
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good as what is useful to our nature ⓘ |
| discusses |
rational self-preservation
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social relations based on reason ⓘ the ideal of the free person ⓘ |
| examines |
human servitude to affects
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power of the emotions ⓘ |
| follows | Spinoza, Ethics, Part III ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
ethics literature
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philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary moral psychology
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existentialist interpretations of freedom ⓘ modern ethics ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
ethics
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freedom ⓘ human bondage to the passions ⓘ moral psychology ⓘ rational virtue ⓘ |
| method | geometrical method ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Pars IV: De servitute humana, seu de affectuum viribus
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surface form:
De servitute humana, seu de affectuum viribus
Part IV of Ethics ⓘ
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Ethica, Pars IV
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| partOf |
Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV
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surface form:
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| philosophicalTradition |
Early modern philosophy
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Rationalism ⓘ |
| positionInWork | fourth part ⓘ |
| precedes | Spinoza, Ethics, Part V ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1677 ⓘ |
| title |
Part IV of Ethics
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surface form:
Ethics, Part IV
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| workForm | treatise ⓘ |
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