Spinoza and Jeffers on man in nature
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Inquiry
- Vol. 20 (1-4) , 481-528
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00201747708601829
Abstract
Western society has been diverted from the goal of spiritual freedom and autonomy as expressed in the ancient Pythagorean ‘theory of the cosmos’. Indeed, following Heidegger's analysis, it can be seen that modern Western society has arrived at the opposite pole of anthropocentric ‘absolute subjectivism’ in which the entire non‐human world is seen as a material resource to be consumed in the satisfaction of our egoistic passive desires. It is further argued that Spinozism is actually a modern version of the ‘theory of the cosmos’ which, when supplemented by a vision of man's identity with the ecological world, would provide us with the only adequate portrayal of the God/Nature/Man relationship.Keywords
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