The notion of contemplation in the book two of Spinoza’s Ethics

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  • Luís César Oliva Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2008.89339

Keywords:

Spinoza, Contemplation, Imagination, Reason

Abstract

This paper investigates the concept of contemplation in the book two of Spinoza ´s Ethics, examining the uses of that term, as much as its precise sense, in the contexts of each one of the three kinds of knowledge proposed by the philosopher. The analysis of these passages indicates that Spinoza uses the term to signify the knowledge of singular things, either in the field of inadequacy (first kind of knowledge) or of adequacy (third kind). The appearances of the term in propositions on the second kind (knowledge of general properties) do not invalidate the hypothesis, because they don´t aim at the object itself of this kind of knowledge, but at a previous condition of it.

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Author Biography

  • Luís César Oliva, Universidade de São Paulo
    Professor do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de São Paulo

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Published

2008-12-15

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No. 19 (2008)

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Oliva, L. C. (2008). The notion of contemplation in the book two of Spinoza’s Ethics. Cadernos Espinosanos, 19, 47-65. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2008.89339