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Conatus: political being and Spinoza
Part I - The nature and significance of the conatus Spinoza’s ‘conatus’ is a signal concept of his thought and one which appears as an axiom of modern treatments, particularly those of a political nature. Famously, the conatus doctrine provides: Each thing insofar as...
Critical Finance Law
Finance and teleology Critical finance law is the study of one of the most significant teloi of the modern era: the settlement of debt. Why is the settlement of debt a telos? Well it is perhaps no surprise that just as the Scholastic concept of the causa finalis, or...
Interpretation: notes on the thought of Spinoza
A surfeit of sense Interpretation might initially be defined as the art of finding the situs of that which refuses to be localisable. One may slice up the commodity into its tiniest parts and never find its value, for the value is intermixed totally. So the sense of...
Imperium: notes on the thought of Spinoza
Note: readers should first study the key concepts Power (potentia) and Natural Right before proceeding. A practical comprehension of Spinoza’s theory of natural right allows us to begin to use this conceptual tool to construct our world. This is the essence of...
Natural right: notes on the thought of Spinoza
Note: readers should first study the key concept Power (potentia) before proceeding. When students (res)trained in law approach Spinoza’s theory of natural right (ius naturale) they face precisely the formidable terminological barrier which Spinoza endeavours to teach...
Power (potentia): notes on the thought of Spinoza
In this article I will focus exclusively on Spinoza’s theory of power (potentia) which forms a key element of his theories of natural right and imperium. For the legal theoretical importance of potentia in the areas, see the forthcoming articles NATURAL RIGHT and...
Jakob Böhme: The Tragedy of Freedom and the Curse of the Law
The following text is the first study of a two-part monograph written by Nikolai Berdyaev, the former Marxist militant turned autodidact and Christian existentialist, and was published in the journal Put' in Febraury 1930. It seems...
De Gandillac’s Cusanus: Order of Justice and Nexus of Love
As Nicolaus Cusanus' thought developed from the ground-breaking Docta Ignorantia one can detect that movement that each thinker must make as they pass to the limit, and pass right through. In the following selection, Maurice de Gandillac shows us how Cusanus (here de...
Cusanus on the Just at the Limit
To see the debt of Nikolaus von Kues (Nicolas Cusanus, Nicolaus de Cusa) to Meister Eckhart, it perhaps suffices for the casual reader to compare yesterday's post here to the selection translated below, this being the primary purpose of presenting the two texts...