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La subordination de la religion à l'État prend la forme d'un accommodement dans le Traité théologico-politique . Dans le chapitre XIX, Spinoza utilise à maintes reprises le verbe latin accommodare pour décrire leurs relations et l'on peut se demander ce que cela signifie. L'article analyse la nature et les figures des accommodements théologico-politiques, leurs avantages et leurs limites afin de préserver la paix de la République.

El Tratado teológico-político de Spinoza supone un potente alegato por la libertad de pensamiento y de expresión. Pero el filósofo afirma, por otra parte, que nadie tiene por completo el derecho de actuar según sus deseos y a su arbitrio, pues hay que obedecer incondicionalmente las leyes, incluso las más absurdas. ¿Se trata de una paradoja? ¿Es posible separar con claridad en la vida política los ámbitos de la libertad de expresión y de la libertad de acción? ¿Es posible establecer con precisión los límites de la libertad de acción? Al abordar estas cuestiones, el artículo nos recuerda un texto de Spinoza, en el que, utilizando el ejemplo de Ulises con las sirenas, se indica que obedecer no es necesariamente cumplir las órdenes. No se trata de desobediencia civil ni de un derecho a la rebelión, sino del derecho a la obediencia perfecta: libertad de acción de acuerdo con una constitución verdaderamente común. ; The Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise is a powerful defense of the freedoms of thought and expression. But the philosopher says, moreover, that no one is completely entitled to act according to their wishes and at its discretion, because everybody must unconditionally obey the laws, even the most absurd. Is it a paradox? Is it possible to separate clearly the fields of the freedom of expression and the freedom of action in political life? Is it possible to establish with precision the limits of freedom of action? To address this matter, the article reminds us a text of Spinoza, who, using the example of Ulysses with sirens, points out that obeying is not necessarily to fulfill the orders. It is not a matter of civil disobedience or of a right to rebellion, but of the right to a perfect obedience: a freedom of action in accordance with a truly common Constitution.

A new analysis of the mind/body relationship based on the philosophy of SpinozaIt is widely recognised that Spinoza put an end to the Cartesian dualism of body and mind by thinking through the possibility of their unity. Revisiting this generally accepted notion of psychophysical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through the affects that bring together a body's affection and the idea of this affection.Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, Jaquet reveals that understanding affects, actions and passions provides the key to how the mind and body are the same individual expressed in two different ways. She presents the Spinozist model in all its complexity, illuminating its potentialities for contemporary debates on the nature of the mind-body problem.Key FeaturesCritiques the false conception of psychophysical parallelism in SpinozaGives us a new analysis of the mind/body relationshipContrasts Descartes' conception of the passions with Spinoza's conception of the affectsDefines Spinozian affects and their variations in a new way

An investigation of moral-didactic techniques and messages in ancient Greek historiography. Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends. Key features and benefits. Covers the five most substantially preserved historical texts from Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Herodotos, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybios, and Diodoros Offers a comprehensive analysis of the moral-didactic techniques used and moral messages propounded by each of these authors Compares the practices and messages of the different works to arrive at a diachronic understanding of the role of moral didacticism in Classical and Hellenistic historiography.

Offers a detailed analysis of time, duration, and eternity from the early Spinoza to its eventual shape in the Ethics and Theologico-Political TreatiseConstitutes the first book-length study by one of the world's leading Spinoza scholarsOffers a systematic reading of key Spinozist concepts concerning time and eternityReads the concepts of time and duration positively and affirmatively in their relation to God and eternityClosely tracks the emergence and movement of these concepts throughout Spinoza's workFirst published in 1997, and subsequently revised and reissued in 2015, Chantal Jaquet's Sub specie aeternitatis: étude des concepts de temps, durée et éternité chez Spinoza is the book-version of Jaquet's doctoral thesis, and the first of her now five book-length publications on Spinoza. With Spinoza, Jaquet asks how it is possible for human beings, as finite modes of existence, to share in God's eternity, as well as how human existence relates to the eternity of God, or Nature.This translation will allow English readers to closely track the concepts of time, duration, and eternity from the early Spinoza through to the last of his works. It will also situate his thought in relation to the scholastic philosophies that preceded him, all with close attention to the Latin throughout

Ce volume se propose de rouvrir les recherches sur la confrontation entre Spinoza et Malebranche, à laquelle l'histoire de la philosophie s'est jusqu'ici peu livrée, ou dont elle ne s'est guère acquittée que sous les formes figées de la triangulation (la lecture croisée des deux auteurs dans leur rapport à Descartes) ou de la réfutation (de Spinoza seul, ou de Malebranche – voire de Descartes – compromis par la proximité du spinozisme). Ce livre fait d'abord un état des lieux de la question en situant les deux auteurs par rapport à l'héritage cartésien et en restituant les discussions polémiques autour du spinozisme de Malebranche. Les textes recueillis examinent ensuite de nouvelles pistes et effectuent des rapprochements inédits, afin d'accroître à la fois notre connaissance des deux systèmes que celle de leur réception : ils donnent lieu à un face à face spéculatif qui explore aussi bien l'ontologie et la théorie de la connaissance que l'éthique et la politique. [source éditeur]