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This study explores both the reformulation of, and the solution to, the traditional problem of envy in the political science of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677). The idea that envy tears communities asunder predates the history of political philosophy. The problem has a central place …

This thesis is an anthropological exploration of the envy of Aguabuena people, a small rural community of potters in the village of Ráquira, in the Boyacá region of Andean Colombia. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among these potters, I propose an understanding of envy…

This thesis proposes the research of the concept of Envy, through the following hypothesis: (1) Whether it is a universal innate emotion: (a) In the history of humanity. (b) In the history of each individual. (2) If the person, for fear of his dangerous envious impulse, will def…