Zaoui, Pierre:
Spinoza : Un autre salut par le corps?

In: Spinoza et le corps = Astérion : Philosophie, Histoire des Idees, Pensées Politique 3 (2005), s.p.

Contains summary in: English

Literature type: Articles
Language: French
Thematic areas: Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Anthropology / psychology / doctrine of affections / body and mind
Subject: E

English commentary: "One of the last proposals of Spinoza’s Ethica (the 39th of the fifth part) says this : « Who has a body able to the greatest number of acts, has a mind whom the greatest part is eternal ». In relation with what was said about the unit of body and mind since the second part, that proposal seems obvious : who has a powerful body will get some affects suitable to the mind’s order, hence will get a mind as powerful, that is to say eternal. However, such a proposal becomes curious when it is analysed from the point of view of salvation which, in The Ethica, as Beatitude or third kind’s knowledge, follows a only intellectual way. Would it be un other kind of salvation, a salvation by the body, what Spinoza doesn’t describe but what would get a spinozistic meaning ? And if we answer positively, how to obtain such a salvation by changing his body’s acts before his mind ? Here is the mean question of this issue." (abstract)URL: http://https://journals.openedition.org/asterion/302

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