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WHAT CAN A BODY DO?

Author(s): Branka Arsić
Subject(s): Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: body; affection; desire

Summary/Abstract: In this text an attempt was made to inquire Spinoza’s concept of body, not only as one of many in the history of philosophy, not at all as one that remains by the stereotype which is produced by the history of philosophy, and according to which body does not think, and the spirit that thinks is a birthplace of the subject, etc. The analysis of Spinoza’s statement about body and of the relationship between body and spirit tries to show that body, in spite of the parallelism of the order of modi in attributes, becomes the condition of the possibility of the spirit, its essence itself. This kind of the turn of the relation, on its part draws also Spinoza’s attempt to establish the new way of thinking.

  • Issue Year: 1995
  • Issue No: 2-3
  • Page Range: 116-138
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian
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