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DOI: 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

Published date: 15 Sep 2015

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2014 Higher Education Press and Brill
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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.

Key words： altruism; egoism; emotion; expansion; freedom; human lives; neutral motives; spontaneity; virtue

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Michael Slote . From Virtue to Freedom through Emotion[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2015 , 10(3) : 430 -443 . DOI: 10.3868/s030-004-015-0032-8

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