Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17 (4):503-506 (2020)
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This essay discusses hope and optimism with reference to current rhetoric around COVID-19. It draws on Spinoza to suggest that much of that rhetoric rests on questionable assumptions about the supremacy of human reason within Nature.

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10.1007/s11673-020-10028-5

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Genevieve Lloyd
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Pensées.B. Pascal - 1670/1995 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 60:111-112.
Theological-Political Treatise.Baruch Spinoza - 2001 - Hackett Publishing Company.
The Critique of Judgement.James Creed Meredith (ed.) - 1978 - Oxford University Press.

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