The conception of human nature in Benedictus Spinoza

Authors

  • Emanuel Angelo da Rocha Fragoso Universidade Estadual do Ceará - UECE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2009.89371

Keywords:

Spinoza, Ethica, Human nature, Mind, Body

Abstract

Spinoza in his Ethics conceives human nature as composed by means of two of God’s infinite attributes, thought and extension, or the idea and it’s object, the body. Human mind as an idea and the object of this idea, the body, assume a non-causal relation between the finite mode of thought and extension. The body, while a relation composed of motion and stillness is kept through the changes that affects its parts, is continually subjected to encounters by chance (occursus), or to the impact of multiple bodies around it. Mind reflects these encounters and through them acknowledges external bodies. It’s the afection-idea. It’s the imaginative knowledge, or the knowledge conditioned by the situation of our own body, by our temper, our previous experience and our individual prior concepts.

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Published

2009-12-15

Issue

No. 21 (2009)

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How to Cite

Fragoso, E. A. da R. (2009). The conception of human nature in Benedictus Spinoza. Cadernos Espinosanos, 21, 83-95. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2009.89371