By Michael LeBuffe
For Spinoza, we discover price in higher task. dangers bog down the quest for worth. First, we have to recognize and obtain the potential to be stable. during this admire, Spinoza's idea is a smart deal like Hobbes's: we try to be lively, and so that it will accomplish that we'd like meals, defense, overall healthiness, and different priceless parts of an honest existence. there's one other threat, although, that's extra refined. On Spinoza's idea of the passions, we will be able to misjudge our personal natures and fail to appreciate the types of beings that we actually are. so as to misjudge what's sturdy and may even search ends which are evil. Spinoza's account of human nature is therefore a lot deeper and darker than Hobbes's: we aren't renowned to ourselves, and the self-knowledge that's the beginning of advantage and freedom is elusive and fragile.
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