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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 Schopenhauer added that the stone would be right. This philosopher equated “right” with “power” in a work that argued the sovereign (15[1])has necessarily limited power, since everyone is “the master of his own thoughts.” This philosopher’s (10[1])conception of democracy is based on two people forming 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.” This philosopher wrote that “every man strives to preserve his own being,” a doctrine called conatus, (10[1])in a book that claims the passions cause “human bondage.” For 10 points, name this philosopher who frequently wrote “God, or Nature” in his Ethics. (10[1])■END■

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