Spinoza: a think about the actuality and the criticism of the utopian politics

Authors

  • Daniel Santos da Silva Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2009.89377

Keywords:

Politics, Experience, Utopia, Individual, Conatus

Abstract

This article tries to locate some points in which the Spinoza’s criticism of the philosophy of utopian politics can be found, philosophy which is very often based on a transcendent notion of power. We do that giving relief to some notions, like that of experience and that of individual, besides focusing the importance of the notion of conatus in the establishment of an ontology of the actuality of the human nature, in which, from the cognitive point of view, imaginative and rational knowledge affirm the actuality of this human nature and allow the proposition of political regimes based on such actuality

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Author Biography

  • Daniel Santos da Silva, Universidade de São Paulo
    Doutorando do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de São Paulo

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Published

2009-12-15

Issue

No. 21 (2009)

Section

Artigos

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How to Cite

Silva, D. S. da. (2009). Spinoza: a think about the actuality and the criticism of the utopian politics. Cadernos Espinosanos, 21, 159-174. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2009.89377