THE INSTITUTION OF THE STATE OR THE TWO FACES OF THE MULTITUDE IN HOBBES AND SPINOZA

Authors

  • Paula Bettani Mendes Jesus Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2016.120291

Keywords:

State, representation, politics, intitution, Hobbes, Spinoza.

Abstract

This article aims to present the way in which Hobbes and Spinoza understand the multitude, thus elucidating the role conferred to it in the institution of the State. We assume that for both thinkers the multitude plays a central role with regard to the institution of the civil state, so that, by different routes, such an institution can only be thought as emerging from it. As noted, the two philosophers have totally different ways of conceiving the multitude – while for one it must necessarily be unified by means of representation, for the other, the instituting political subject is precisely the multitude taken in its plurality – from what folllows that we end up facing two different conceptions of State.

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Author Biography

  • Paula Bettani Mendes Jesus, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
    Doutoranda, Universidade de São Paulo

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Published

2016-12-24

Issue

No. 35 (2016)

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Artigos

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How to Cite

Jesus, P. B. M. (2016). THE INSTITUTION OF THE STATE OR THE TWO FACES OF THE MULTITUDE IN HOBBES AND SPINOZA. Cadernos Espinosanos, 35, 349-371. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2016.120291