spinoza feat descartes

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…showed last 75 words of 5060 total…proper reverence for God, a respect for other people, and a disregard for what is beyond one's power. But he ends paradoxically, stating that citizens should be governed and led "so as to do freely what is best" (Ethics, Part II, Scholium to Proposition 49). It is only in a very rarified sense that people are able to act freely, and only a relative sense in which they may do what is best. [c2p]