Santinelli, Cristina:
"Conatus" e "corpora simplicissima" : Hobbes e Spinoza sulla natura e origine del modo

In: Rivista di filosofia 3 (2018), 383-404

Literature type: Articles
Language: Italian
Thematic areas: Philosophy of nature, Contemporaries and context, Comparison of theories
Subject (individuals): Hobbes, Thomas

English commentary: "The paper suggests a possible relation between the concept of "conatus", as it is presented in Hobbes' "De Corpore", and that of "corpora simplicissima", as formulated by Spinoza in his short treatise on physics in "Ethica". The reflexion doesn't concern the philological and historical question of Hobbes as a source of Spinoza's thought, but focuses on the definitions of those two concepts, in order to evaluate their function as a foundation of a philosophy of nature set free from theological premises and in light of a mechanism inspired by the idea of matter as "potentia/power", as opposed to the cartesian concept of "extentio" as "moles quiescens"." (abstract)

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