Spinoza’s self-imagining machine
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2023.213132Keywords:
Imagination, Disconcerting simul, Self-centering, Concatenation, TeleologyAbstract
This text proposes the hypothesis of the “self-imagining machine” as being the fundamental construct of Spinoza’s theory of imagination, intending also to justify a certain reading that allows such denomination. To do so, this text starts from the notion of contemplari externè to explain, then, the interpretative notion of disconcerting simul, which plays a fundamental role in forging the notion of self-centering, a notion that allows to capture the effects of interiority and exteriority relative to the human individual and whose engendering makes the nature of things to be apprehended teleologically. Based on the self-centering we examine and interpret relevant categories of imagination, among which concatenatio is the most important. Finally, we indicate some developments of this reading hypothesis here proposed.
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