Spinoza's Antidote to Death

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Sánchez de León Serrano, José María
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2025-02-19T17:13:26Z
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2025-02-19T17:13:26Z
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2024-01-26
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2025-02-19T17:13:26Z
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2077-1444
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https://hdl.handle.net/2445/219000
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741875
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The paper delves into Spinoza’s perspective on death and how the acquisition of genuine knowledge ensures the mind’s survival after the body’s demise. Spinoza is well known for characterizing the human mind as the idea of the body, which therefore reflects all of the body’s states and is fundamentally connected to its physical destiny, encompassing growth and development as well as eventual extinction. However, Spinoza also holds that the mind possesses the capacity to transcend its limited perspective and contemplate things from the vantage point of God, freeing itself from its mortal fate. The paper’s goal is to dissect the intricacies of this cognitive liberation and evaluate its logical soundness.
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13 p.
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application/pdf
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eng
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MDPI
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Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010094
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Religions, 2024, vol. 15, num.1
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010094
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cc-by (c) José María Sánchez de León Serrano, 2024
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Articles publicats en revistes (Filosofia)
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Eternitat
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Pensament
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Jo (Filosofia)
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Eternity
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Thinking
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Self (Philosophy)
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Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677
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Spinoza's Antidote to Death
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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