Abstract

ROMAN, Ana María Ayala. Virtue and happiness: an analysis of Descarte’s anthropology and Spinoza’s community thought. Prax. filos. [online]. 2017, n.44, pp.169-191. ISSN 0120-4688.

This paper aims to reveal the relationship between Virtue and Happiness, remitting this relationship to the conception of nature or ontological specificity of man. To this purpose we will analyze principally Descarte’s and Spninoza’s thoughts in order to show two contrary aspects, although they are in dialogue. We will explain that the difference in these philosophical thoughts from the XVIIth century is based in the Cartesian anthropological thought, of an individualistic type, and the idea of Spinoza’s community thought; such an exercise will invite us to think about ethics, but also about politics, in a certain way.

Keywords : Spinoza; Descartes; Virtue; Happiness; Summun Bonnum..

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