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Book: Aging in an Aging Society

Chapter: 2. The Other within Us: Reframing, with Spinoza, the Self’s Relationship to Disability and Aging

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.34475

Blurb:

“The Other within Us: Reframing, with Spinoza, the Self’s Relationship to Disability and Aging” by Iva Apostolova and Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril adapts the philosopher Baruch Spinoza's anti-dualist theory of the conatus to the question of aging. The authors argue that since we always conceptualise ourselves in relation with others, the cultivation of compassion is a moral attitude that asks from each of us an effort to negotiate between our own interests and those of others.

Chapter Contributors

  • Iva Apostolova ([email protected] - iapostolova) 'Dominican University College'
  • Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril ([email protected] - egauthiermamaril) 'University of Aberdeen (PhD candidate)'