Imaginação: entre o medo e a liberdade

Fear and hope appear in the history of Philosophy as problems located in temporal dimension of existence. Espinosa follows this tradition, as well as the use Philosophy as a medicina animi, but sets apart for himself some differences. Giving prominence to the role of image in fear and hope constitution, he delimits the way by which these affects are necessarily produced by the limitation of imagination to body duration. However, when freed of the impediments to its potency, the mind is able to ordinate and concatenate body affections, considering itself without relation to the body, under a new perspective. Fear problem treatment, therefore, is not in present time, but in eternity.