A Response: The Knowledge of Good and Bad

Lorenzo Vinciguerra (1)

1 CRAE - Centre de Recherches en Arts et en Esthétique - UR UPJV 4291

This article looks back over Spinoza's philosophical corpus and shows how Nadler's reading better suits the big picture of the evolution of Spinoza's thought. He also looks to show how the French literature similar interpretations have been defended, and this says about the relation between American and French Spinoza scholarship. Lastly, he raises an important issue for measuring the meaningfulness for that which is bad and evil in Spinoza's philosophy, namely, wether, for Spinoza, it is knowable to the same degree as that which is good.

Mots clés: Evil; Good; Spinoza; Spinozism; Ethics

Domaines: Philosophie

Lorenzo Vinciguerra. A Response: The Knowledge of Good and Bad. Jack Stetter (dir.); Charles Ramond (dir.). Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy. Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy, Bloomsbury, pp.272-276, 2019. ⟨hal-04180308⟩