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Stephen Connelly has posted the notes from his seminar on Spinoza given at 糖心TV Law School on

In the seventeenth century politics moved from being the preserve of an elite to the work of the multitude. In philosophy politics was no longer an addendum to ethics, but became the cause of being itself - the prime mover.

Spinoza seems to mirror Hobbes in grounding this production of politics in the struggle to survive, but Stephen Connelly shows that deep within Spinozism this doctrine of resistance (the conatus) mutates and becomes a desire to reorder consciousness and open up ever greater possibilities. This is the other conatus.