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Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19

This essay discusses hope and optimism with reference to current rhetoric around COVID-19. It draws on Spinoza to suggest that much of that rhetoric rests on questionable assumptions about the supremacy of human reason within Nature.

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Autor principal: Lloyd, Genevieve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Singapore 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7445796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32840855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10028-5
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spelling pubmed-74457962020-08-26 Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19 Lloyd, Genevieve J Bioeth Inq Symposium: COVID-19 This essay discusses hope and optimism with reference to current rhetoric around COVID-19. It draws on Spinoza to suggest that much of that rhetoric rests on questionable assumptions about the supremacy of human reason within Nature. Springer Singapore 2020-08-25 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7445796/ /pubmed/32840855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10028-5 Text en © Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Pty Ltd. 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19
title Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19
title_full Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19
title_fullStr Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19
title_short Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19
title_sort hope and optimism: a spinozist perspective on covid-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7445796/
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