Reply to Nadler: Spinoza’s Free Person and Wise Person Reconsidered

This article addresses Steven Nadler’s response to my objections to his reading of Spinoza’s free person (homo liber). Nadler argues that there are no clear and significant differences between the free person and the wise person (vir sapiens) in their character or in the role they play in Spinoza’s...

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