“Ad captum vulgi”. The Meaning and Limits of a Spinozian Syntagm
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Authors
- Filippo Mignini
Institutions
- University of Macerata (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JOLMA
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2026/01/002
- Primary Topic
- Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00