Immanency and love in Spinoza’s philosophy

Abstract

The following text presents a non-common interpretation of Spinoza’s philosophy, as it recovers not only the modern elements in which this philosophy lays, but the peculiar appropriation that Spinoza does of the concepts linked to the Neoplatonic-Christian tradition, such as life, amor Dei intellectualis, charity or the figure of Christ itself that appears in Spinoza’s correspondence. In this sense, the explicitation of the content and the relation between the concepts of immanency and love, appears as a helping point to remark that Spinoza’s doctrine is articulated on making a renovation of some of the most archaic Judaeo-Christian religious approaches — the conception of loving the fellow human being as the divinization of the man in God and, at the same time, as the realization of God in the man, fundamentally —, that satisfy the guidelines of a Modernity that finds in the affirmation of the autonomy of the subject, one of the bases that guarantees its emergence.