From Virtue to Freedom through Emotion

doi:10.3868/s030-004-015-0032-8

Front. Philos. China

2015, Vol. 10

Issue (3) : 430-443 https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-004-015-0032-8

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From Virtue to Freedom through Emotion

Michael Slote(

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Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124-4670, USA

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Abstract

Spinoza conceived human freedom as a matter solely of rationality, but an understanding of the role emotion plays in moral virtue can lead one toward viewing emotionality as also essential to human freedom. A large part of human freedom consists in our tendency to give intrinsic importance to people or things outside ourselves and take them into our lives; this sense of importance, in rich and various ways, brings emotion into the center of our lives and our freedom as individuals.

Keywords altruism egoism emotion expansion freedom human lives neutral motives spontaneity virtue

Issue Date: 28 October 2015

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Michael Slote. From Virtue to Freedom through Emotion[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2015, 10(3): 430-443.

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