O significado de Sui Iuris na filosofia de Spinoza

In modern political philosophy, it is common usage to designate as sui iuris a sort of personal freedom not subjected to external influences amidst a still emerging language of natural rights. Sui iuris is then a sovereign space of individual autonomy under the expression of a right. Spinoza also refers to sui iuris quite often, but mostly in his Political Treatise, through the pair sui iuris – alterius iuris, which is usually translated as a pair of autonomy-heteronomy. This paper will try to demonstrate that the sui iuris in Spinoza goes through a radical transformation: not only is it not totally incompatible with alterius iuris (both are a sort of gradual progression of liberty), but it also has an epistemological dimension close to a context of personal salvation. Sui iuris is more a liberation than a liberty