ABSTRACT
This chapter tackles the problem of the role of the passive affects in education. Since Spinozistic freedom is conceived as the direct result of a more adequate understanding of the world, and since passive affects are connected with an inadequate understanding of the world (insofar as passive affects are caused externally), the role of the passive affects in education needs to be investigated. This involves explicating the role of knowledge gained through the imagination, and it also demands a discussion on what it means to be able to understand natural causes adequately.
