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This philosopher wrote that if you threw a stone through the air, it would think it was flying of its own free will, and (15[1])Schopenhauer added that the stone would be right. This philosopher equated “right” with “power” in a work that argued the sovereign has necessarily limited power, since everyone is “the master of his own thoughts.” This philosopher claimed that two rational men can form a composite being twice as powerful as either of them. This philosopher’s definitions of joy and suffering, sometimes translated as pleasure and pain, as the feelings of (*) increase and decrease in our power sparked the 1990s’ “affective turn.” (10[1])This philosopher wrote that “every man strives to preserve his own being,” a doctrine called conatus, (10[3])in a book (10[1])that claims the passions cause “human bondage.” For 10 points, name this philosopher who frequently wrote “God, or Nature” in his Ethics. ■END■

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