On transfiguration of the highest right to everything: fear, hope and calculation of utility

Authors

  • Víctor Manuel Pineda Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2012.89457

Keywords:

Utility, Law, Fear, Hope, Desire.

Abstract

This essay wants to show the different meanings of the concept of utility in the philosophy of Spinoza. On the one hand it shows itself as a tendency of human nature to search at all costs everything that would prolong the lives of individuals. On the other hand it is displayed as that which provides the largest number of prejudices to an individual: this avid pursuit leads to the field of the most delirious imagination. This is where the transfiguration of the highest right to everything and the two subjects that embody it ─ individuals and political society ─ become important. Spinoza intends to resolve the paradox between the maximization of individual power and the maximization of the conflict(,) proposing a new subject of highest right, the multitude.

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Author Biography

  • Víctor Manuel Pineda, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
    Profesor investigador en la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, México

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Published

2012-06-15

Issue

No. 26 (2012)

Section

Artigos

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How to Cite

Pineda, V. M. (2012). On transfiguration of the highest right to everything: fear, hope and calculation of utility. Cadernos Espinosanos, 26, 47-79. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2012.89457