A Critical Assesment of Spinoza’s Theory of Affect: Affects, Beliefs, and Human Freedom

Ahmet AKTAŞ

doi:https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.446507

Makale detayları

A Critical Assesment of Spinoza’s Theory of Affect: Affects, Beliefs, and Human Freedom

Yazarlar:

Ahmet AKTAŞ

Yayıncı:

Mustafa ÇEVİK

Ana Başlıklar:

Felsefe

Dergi:

Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy 2018 Vol.8 Issue 1, pp.251-272

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000765117

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

eISSN:

1303-8303

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.446507

Özet:

 


Affects are intentional 
structures of beliefs and desires. Many philosophers have plausibly 
argued that Spinoza’s theory of ideas is a kind of theory of belief by 
this time yet this claim has rarely been taken into account when it 
comes to Spinoza’s theory of affects, which is a part of his theory of 
ideas. This paper shows that if this point is taken seriously when 
regarding Spinoza’s theory of affects we reach significant results about
 the fifth part of Ethics. To confirm this, I shall strive to show that 
all affects depend on some beliefs by analyzing Spinoza’s theory of 
affects regarding his theory of ideas, and in particular an affirmation 
which an idea naturally involves. From this revelation, we will be able 
to see that Spinoza’s theory of affects appeared in third and fourth 
part of Ethics is inconsistent with the fifth part of Ethics in so far 
as three therapy methods given at the beginning of the fifth part of 
Ethics are considered. Additionally, and suitably to this assertion, I 
will also show that arguments by which soundness of these therapy 
methods are guaranteed seem logically invalid. Finally, I will try to 
revise Spinoza’s therapy methods by taking all errors and core ideas in 
Spinoza’s theory of affects into consideration.

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Makale detayları

A Critical Assesment of Spinoza’s Theory of Affect: Affects, Beliefs, and Human Freedom

Yazarlar: Ahmet AKTAŞ

Yayıncı: Mustafa ÇEVİK

Ana Başlıklar: Felsefe

Dergi: Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy 2018 Vol.8 Issue 1, pp.251-272

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 7/2018

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000765117

Sıklık: Üç Aylık

eISSN: 1303-8303

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.446507

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Ahmet AKTAŞ

Yayıncı:

Mustafa ÇEVİK

Ana Başlıklar:

Felsefe

Dergi:

Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy 2018 Vol.8 Issue 1, pp.251-272

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000765117

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

eISSN:

1303-8303

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.446507