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    The more we join our minds with God through adequate knowledge of things under the form of eternity, the less we are affected by our own passions

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    • 1.Passions are nothing but our passivity in the face of forces external to us
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    • 2.Adequate knowledge of things under the form of eternity reduces the influence of external things on us
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    • 3.Reduced influence of external things diminishes the passivity that constitutes passion
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of eudaimonia requires that virtuous emotions (thumos, righteous anger) are constitutive of human flourishing, not obstacles to it.
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    • 2.Spinoza's equation of passion-reduction with rational perfection presupposes a disembodied ideal that severs the rational agent from the affective engagement necessary for ethical life.
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that reason alone is causally inert with respect to motivation; adequate knowledge cannot by itself diminish the force of passions.
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    • 2.If passions are the only original sources of motivational energy, then attenuating them through sub specie aeternitatis cognition would undermine the very conative drive required for moral action.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    This epistemological ideal forms the core of Spinoza’s rationalistic ethics—and, hence, on one plausible account, the core of his Ethics. Spinoza’s monism entails that the sort of individuals that Aristotle regarded as primary substances are distinguished not by their own substantial unity, but by their conatus—their striving to persist. Thus, self-preservation is not just one possible goal of ethical agents; it is the very thing that makes those agents individuals. Our essence, and our ethical
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