Spinoza on soul’s flotation: a deleuzian interpretation

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  • Valéria Loturco da Silva Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2008.89330

Keywords:

Flotation of the animus, Conatus, Effort, Potency, Conscience

Abstract

How it is possible for the mind to be constituted by contrary affections? In order to understand in what circumstances happens “the flotation of the animus”, its action in the imagination field, its ontological meaning and ist dependence on the conatus and on the conscience, we intend to analyse the propositions 14 to 18 of the third part of Spinoza’s Ethics. The flotation of the animus occurs due to conatus variation, that is, due to individual’s effort to perservere in the existence in its double aspect: mechanic (to maintain the proportion of movement to rest that characterizes it) and dynamic (to increase its potency of acting), whose acting leads to a transitive character of the affection-passion and of the conscience, what is evidenced by Deleuze’s interpretation.

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Author Biography

  • Valéria Loturco da Silva, Universidade de São Paulo
    Doutora em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo

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Published

2008-06-15

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No. 18 (2008)

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How to Cite

Silva, V. L. da. (2008). Spinoza on soul’s flotation: a deleuzian interpretation. Cadernos Espinosanos, 18, 11-38. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2008.89330