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150. - Prejudice

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Julie R. Klein
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Throughout his works, Spinoza analyzes and seeks to undermine the power of prejudice (preajudicium) to obstruct knowledge and prevent human flourishing and freedom.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 435 - 438
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Althusser, L. (1997). The only materialist tradition, Part I: Spinoza. In Montag, W. and Stolze, T. (eds.), The New Spinoza (pp. 3–20). University of Minnesota Press.Google Scholar
Del Lucchese, F. (2020). The mother of all prejudices: Teleology and normativity in Spinoza. Parrhesia, 32, 145–70.Google Scholar
Dobbs-Weinstein, I. (2002). The power of prejudice and the force of law: Spinoza’s critique of religion and its heirs. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 7(1), 51–70.Google Scholar
Klein, J. R. (2013). Philosophizing historically/historicizing philosophy: Some Spinozistic reflections. In Lærke, M., Smith, J. E. H., and Schliesser, E. (eds.), Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy (pp. 134–58). Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Lærke, M. (2021). Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing. Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Montag, W. (2020). Spinoza’s counter-aesthetics. Intellectual History Review, 30(3), 411–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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