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Finalismo, privação e superstição na Ética de Espinosa
O apêndice da Ética I e o prefácio da Ética IV convocam o finalismo – considerado o preconceito no qual se edifica a superstição humana – ao exame da razão e mostram de que maneira o enraizamento dos preconceitos tanto impede a compreensão das demon…
Finalismo, privação e superstição na Ética de Espinosa
The appendix to Ethics I and the preface to Ethics IV examine finalism (considered to be the prejudice on which human superstition is built) and explain how prejudices not only block the comprehension of demonstrations but also keep the superstitiou…
Herds of Featherless Bipeds: Division and Privation in Plato’s Statesman
This paper explores privation in the Statesman, first from a methodological point of view, and then politically. I begin (§1) with the Rule of Bisection (262a-e): classes should be bifurcated by form, which apparently excludes division by positive a…
IMAGINAÇÃO E ERRO EM PASCAL E ESPINOSA
In the texts of Pascal and Spinoza we can find a contradictionaccording to which the imagination leads to error, but it is not reducedto that. In view of this, the primordial question of this article is how tounderstand this tension: why the imagina…
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