Slowaakse M.P. Joppová over het consequentialisme van #Spinoza’s Ethica

Michaela Petrufová Joppová, afgestudeerd master in de Ethiek, is aan de Universiteit van Prešov in Slowakije bezig met haar proefschrift over filosofisch-antropologische achtergrond van de ethiek van de sociale gevolgen ervan (promotor prof. Dr. Vasil Gluchman). Analyseert de kwestie van de mens als een morele entiteit in de context van fundamentele antropologische categorieën van een ethiek van sociale gevolgen. Daarin verwerkt ze ook de sociale ethiek en antropologie van Spinoza. [Cf., cf. en cf.] Over de laatste schreef ze intussen het volgende artikel:

Michaela Petrufová Joppová, “Spinozian consequentialism of ethics of social consequences." In: Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe), 2018, 8 (issue 1–2), 41–50

Abstract: The present article deals with specific normative concepts of Spinoza’s ethical system and compares them to certain aspects of the theory of ethics of social consequences. At first, a way to approach the problem of normativity in Spinoza is presented, concentrating on the obligatory character of rational – or intellectual – motives. Then, theoretical evidence is presented which links Spinoza to normative-ethical consequentialism. The basis for a consequentialist model of Spinoza’s ethics is the concept of perfection, and on this basis it seems possible to consider its compatibility with non-utilitarian forms of consequentialism, such as ethics of social consequences. Conclusively, the paper’s aim is to present the possibility of considering Spinozian consequentialism as a non-utilitarian consequentialism, while considering ethics of social consequences as a contemporary form of Spinozian consequentialism. [Cf. en PDF]

En passant geeft ze ook het verschil aan tussen Spinoza en Kant.

In de bibliografie van haar artikel heeft ze heel wat werk van haar promotor opgenomen. Van deze Vasil Gluchman verschijnt dit jaar bij Cambridge Scholars Publishing het door hem geredigeerde Ethics of Social Consequences: Philosophical, Applied and Professional Challenges.

Axbstract: “The edited volume presents new and unconventional views of many traditional moral values, such as humanity, human dignity, moral right (of life), justice and responsibility. The originality of the contributions contained in this book is to analyze these values and approaches from the point of view of non-utilitarian consequentialism and ethics of social consequences as one of its forms. The authors of the chapters present new ways of solving many of the contemporary ethical and moral issues, for example, in bioethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics, teaching ethics, and cyber ethics, based on non-utilitarian consequentialism and ethics of social consequences. They also confront these approaches with other ethical theories and philosophical traditions, which serve them as further incentives for the development of non-utilitarian consequentialism and ethics of social consequences in philosophical, applied and professional ethics.” [Cf.]

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[Ik bewaar hier even de titels van enige essay’s over Spinoza over liegen]

Matthew Homan, Spinoza on a Supposed Right to Lie. In: History of Philosophy Quarterly 32 (July 2015): 235-252

Matthew Homan, Rehumanizing Spinoza’s free man. In: Ursula Goldenbaum & Christopher Kluz, (Eds.), Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems. Lexington Books, 2015 – books.google

John Christian Laursen, “Spinoza, Strauss, and the Morality of Lying for Safety and Peace.” In Winfried Schröder (ed.), Reading Between the Lines - Leo Strauss and the History of Early Modern Philosophy. De Gruyter. pp. 171-192 (2015) – PDF