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Affection of Social Worker And Spinoza's Affect and Reason

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2023, (42), pp.353~387
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2023..42.015
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : March 9, 2023
  • Accepted : June 30, 2023
  • Published : June 30, 2023

Chang Jung Yeon 1

1세계사이버대학

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ABSTRACT

This study attempts to draw the affection of social worker based on the affect and reason that are the basis of Spinoza's philosophy of practice. To this end, this study examined the structure of Spinoza's affect and reason based on the 3rd and 4th parts of 『Ethics』, and examined the affection of social worker according to this structure. The study found that the social worker's affect were generated by external causes, but the social worker's affection wasn't the only external causes. The affect and reason of social worker were being affected into the overdetermination of production of affect, the imitation of affects, the combination and preservation of Conatus, the power of affect and their usefulness to man, the usefulness of affect, and the control of affect. If social workers recognize themselves as a cause, it may provide a clue to move from passion to action in social work practice. This has important implications for the ethical practice of social work.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.