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What Counts as an Individual for Spinoza?

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Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought Classical Philosophy and Thought Political Philosophy and Ethics

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Abstract This essay explores Spinoza’s concept of an individual. It focuses on the ontological status of the political state, and rejects Matheron’s view that political states are individuals. For Spinoza, the individual is first and foremost, and it follows that political institutions take second place in importance to the individuals who live in them. The state exists for the benefit of each individual, and it cannot be the case that an individual exists for the benefit of the state.

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