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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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