6 Revisiting Spinoza’s Concept of Conatus: Degrees of Autonomy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Editors’ Introduction 1
6. 1 Relational Autonomy: State of the Art Debate 10
7. 2 Epistemic Autonomy in Descartes, Spinoza and Kant: The Value of Thinking for Oneself 33
8. 3 Spinoza on the Interaction of Ideas: Biased Beliefs 50
9. 4 Spinoza on Natures: Aristotelian and Mechanistic Routes to Relational Autonomy 74
10. 5 Spinoza’s Path from Imaginative Transindividuality to Intuitive Relational Autonomy: From Fusion, Confusion and Fragmentation to Moral Integrity 98
11. 6 Revisiting Spinoza’s Concept of Conatus: Degrees of Autonomy 115
12. 7 Bodies Politic and Civic Agreement 132
13. 8 Power, Freedom and Relational Autonomy 149
14. 9 Spinoza on Affirmation, Anima and Autonomy: ‘Shattered Spirits’ 164
15. 10 A Spinozistic Approach to Relational Autonomy: The Case of Prostitution 194
16. Notes on Contributors 212
17. Index 213