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Document Details : Title: The Devil can't Hurt us, but Sadness is Real Subtitle: Evil, Error, and Negativity in Spinoza's Ethics Author(s): CHERNIAVSKY, Axel Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 87 Issue: 2 Date: 2025 Pages: 269-295 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.87.2.3295272 Abstract : If crime and sin are nothing positive, how can evil be explained? If there is nothing positive in ideas that makes them false, how is error possible? If reality and perfection are the same thing, how can reality not be completely perfect? These questions, which lie at the heart of Spinozism and are the source of much controversy, are illuminated in an unusual way when we take into consideration the distinction between essence at existence. Evil, error and privation in general receive all the reality they need to explain pain and falsity, while at the same time, reality conserves its right to be absolutely perfect. |
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