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A Political Economy of Spinoza’s Ethics: Possession and love

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Jitka R.

Littera Scripta

2009

vol. 2

107-114

This transformation of one’s possessive desire is the common project of the Ethics and of Spinoza’s political writings. Both ethics and politics, from a Spinozian perspective, train one’s comportment toward possession. In the Ethics, one learns to have and to hold otherwise. The tendency to imagine the beloved as situated within an economy of scarce resources taints love with sadness and subjects the soul, or mind, to violent vacillation (fluctuatio animi) and discomfort, which undermines the freedom and fortitude of the individual. This admittedly abstract account conveys the need to comport oneself toward ”ordinary love, ”or the love of finite individuals, so as to open oneself and one’s beloveds onto increasingly joyful engagements with other natural beings. Envious and avaricious love is conservative and exclusive in a way that harms both the lover and the beloved. This maddening and sickening love aims to possess things as we imagine them in our initial joyful encounters and thereby ironically thwarts the very amplification of power that first provokes our love. The drive to possess things through fixing them and captivating them undermines our own power, and the urge to possess the other must eventually fail. A love that aims, alternatively, at self-possession through joyful and enabling encounters with other beings opens the lover to affect and be affected by ever more beings.

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Kiwak W.

Studia Ekonomiczne

2016

vol. 260

45-55

Własność przynależy do człowieka i rodzi się z podjęciem przez niego świadomej i celowej działalności. Wchodzi do zbiorowej pamięci i dorobku kulturowego narodu. Własność łączy się nie tylko z posiadaniem, ale i uprawnieniami. Od uprawnień i struktury praw własności zależy skłonność do akumulacji i gromadzenia. Brak dobrze zdefiniowanych praw własności hamuje rozwój cywilizacyjny.

The property belongs to the man. It brings forth in connection with taking conscious decision. The property becomes a part of the collective memory and cultural heritage of the nation. The property combines not only with possession but also with authorization. The tendency to accumulating depends on authorization and the structure of property rights. Human development is suppressed by the lack of well-defined property rights.

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A Political Economy of Spinoza’s Ethics: Possession and love

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