Open AccessDe afectos y preceptos: Espinosa y lo político
Author(s) -
Pedro Lomba
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
endoxa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.147
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2174-5676
pISSN - 1133-5351
DOI - 10.5944/endoxa.16.2002.5056
Subject(s) - rationality , sensibility , politics , order (exchange) , philosophy , humanities , epistemology , sociology , political science , law , economics , finance
Starting from the apparent paradox presented, on the one hand, by denouncing the sensibilities of hope and fear as negative and enslaving and, on the other, determining their political use as absolutely necessary for the establishing of rationality in public life, this article hopes to investígate and so clarify the relationship between sensibility and rationality in Spinoza's philosophy of inmanence. This relationship, and above all a certain equilibrium between the two terms, is essential in order to define politics such as Spinoza conceived it.