Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Dutch philosopher who devised a rational and systematic approach to the study of nature. He emphasized the importance of a critical and skeptical approach to scientific knowledge. According to Spinoza, scientific knowledge should be disseminated in a clear and ...
Hence, Spinoza is enabled to define the various classes of emotions according to the ideas which give rise to them; for example, he defines love as simply pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hate as pain accompanied also by the idea of an external cause. Pity, ...
The purpose of this article is to base the category of body in the work Ethics of Baruch Spinoza, confronting this text from the metaphysical and ethical considerations that sustain it, as well as the introduction of Tatian and Deleuze's interpretations on the notion of...
First, I emphasize Spinoza's explanation of the imagination, as a first mode of knowledge. Secondly, I delve into the characteristics of the ideas that stem from it and the affections that accompany them. Finally, I analyze their effects on the political and social space....