Nietzsche and Spinoza: fundaments for a therapeutics of affections

Authors

  • Adriana Belmonte Moreira Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2010.89423

Keywords:

Body, Health, Power, Therapeutics, Affectivity

Abstract

In this article, from the analysis of the concepts of body and power present in Spinoza’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies, we aim to show that both philosophers criticize transcendent values, affirming the necessity of creating new values. They show that, in order to make possible an affirmative ethical life, one has, above all, to increase the potency of the whole body/mind, obtained through a therapeutics based on the affective dynamics. Considering that both, Nietzsche and Spinoza, had used the same affection, the joy, to cure powerlessness and that both offer a strictly personal therapy, refusing the creation of a normative ethics, we conclude that a therapy which truly proposes to bring health should be an essentially affective process, based on healthy choices and acts that people should take of their own, instead of a moralization of everyday acts, operated by behavioral psychology manuals and collective hygiene.

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Author Biography

  • Adriana Belmonte Moreira, Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humana
    Doutoranda em Filosofia pela Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH/USP)

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Published

2010-12-15

Issue

No. 24 (2010)

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How to Cite

Moreira, A. B. (2010). Nietzsche and Spinoza: fundaments for a therapeutics of affections. Cadernos Espinosanos, 24, 141-165. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2010.89423