O corpo e o tempo na Ética de Spinoza: um diálogo sobre a finitude humana

Abstract

The present work deals with the finite. However, despite solid ontological reasoning Spinoza accomplishes the first part of Ethics to define finite things, this text is not only a work of ontology. Our purpose in building this dialogue is to talk about the finitude from the perspective of human experience. Indeed, we propose a dialogue about the finitude using the concepts of body and of time because such concepts intertwine when we analyze the condition of existence of men, ie the duration. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the concept of body and its structure of the dynamic composition, as well as the mind and its genres of knowledge. The dialogue that developed in this text is not explicitly done by Benedictus de Spinoza, but it has become possible and intriguing to read that the author of Ethics claims, contrary to human finitude, we feel and experience that we are eternal. Finally, the scope of the present work is to treat the body, duration, finitude, time and eternity, and understand how all these concepts may appear in the same philosophy without such a contradiction between this endless or a unexplained paradox.