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53. - Education

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Julie R. Klein
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Spinoza’s remarks about education are somewhat scattered and indirect, yet education is an important theme in his philosophy. Spinoza’s reflections on education fall into three broad categories: reflections on the education of children, reflections on the cultivation of philosophers, and reflections on civic education. In view of E2p7 and its scholium, which instructs us that Thought and Extension are two attributes of the same substance, E3p2s, which instructs us that the order of actions and passions in our body is the same as the order of actions and passions in our mind, and related texts that elaborate these core commitments, we can understand Spinoza’s notion of education as concerning the power of the body, the power of the mind, and the organization of the emotions or “affects.”

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 135 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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