Concepts of Force in Spinoza's Psychology

Studia Leibnitiana. Supplementa 20:138-144 (1981)
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The paper discusses the role of the concepts of conatus, potentia, vis in Spinoza's project of a new science of the Galilean kind of the passions of the mind and of men’s way of living. I argue that he tries to work out a dynamic – as contrasted with kinematic – approach to psychology.

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Sergio Volodia Marcello Cremaschi
Università Cattolica di Milano (PhD)

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