Imperium et Multitudo: La filosofía política de Baruch Spinoza.

Abstract

Spinoza‟s Political philosophy is grounded on its ontology. Starting from the concept of conatus, Spinoza develops a political apparatus whose principles are based on the necessities of both society and institutions so that the aim of the aggregatio, the utility, do not get disrupted by constant threats. In that sense, Spinoza represents a break with a tradition of philosophers that develop their political theories from imagination and through a conception of a disembodied man. In doing so, he offers an approach to the political from an integral account of man that articulates both reason and affects and a necessary interaction between natural and civil law. The aim of this work is to revisit Spinoza‟s theologico-political treatise, his political treatise and his Ethics, demonstrated according to a geometrical order, specially as it appears in book four. This in order to describe the purpose of Spinoza‟s political philosophy in terms of its basics (Chapter 1) and its relation to Ethics (Chapter 2) and religion (Chapter 3).