Everyone welcome! - - - - - - - - - Dimitris Vardoulakis University of Western Sydney School of Humanities and Languages Bankstown Campus, 7.G.11 Locked Bag 1797 Penrith, NSW 2751 AUSTRALIA
tel: +61 2 9772 6808 The School of Humanities and Languages invites you to a presentation by Dr Beth Lord at University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus. Date: Thursday, 12 May Time: 12-1pm Location: X-Lounge (Level 1, Building 1), Bankstown Campus Beth will be speaking around the following subject: "Spinoza and Income Equality" How does equality contribute to sustainable and "happy" communities? In this paper I present some ways of thinking about this question from the perspective of 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. I will introduce some of his ethical and political views in light of recent research in the social sciences that links income inequality to numerous negative social outcomes. What does Spinoza think about rational equality, moral equality, and material equality? The answer is far from clear. On one reading, Spinoza appears very much in line with the view that inequalities and social hierarchies necessarily have negative outcomes, but on a more Nietzschean reading, he can be seen to promote certain inequalities as the unavoidable and natural difference between the "powers" of individuals. Bio: Beth Lord is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. She is author of Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), and Spinoza's Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh UP, 2010). RSVP to m.frague...@uws.edu.au<mailto:m.frague...@uws.edu.au> Best regards, Mariana Fragueiro Assistant to Head of School School of Humanities and Languages University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 Ph: + 61 2 9772 6103 | Fax: +61 2 9772 6373 Ext: 6103 | Email: m.frague...@uws.edu.au
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