Education and the theory of the affections of Spinoza in the light of the reading of Gilles Deleuze: of the moral

• Grant number: 15/50023-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: April 01, 2015
• End date: March 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Sônia Campaner Miguel Ferrari
• Grantee: Sônia Campaner Miguel Ferrari
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Comunicação, Letras e Artes. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work investigates the theory of affects presented by Baruch Spinoza in the light of the reading of Gilles Deleuze. The meeting with these two philosophers opens new and different perspectives to think about education and culture as well, which are less subject to the major power forces. The morality based on the ran’s impotence, in other words, in the production and investment of passive affects sad and reactive imposes values and behaviors that ultimately work very well for the subjectivities formations aligned to obedience and control. Denouncing every moral structure, Gilles Deleuze speaks of philosophy (or ethics) as an exercise of thought whose function is to drawn a line to flight. He presents Spinoza as the prince of philosophers, ethics of potency's creator that goes against the different forms of moral philosophy, based on the obligation, the duty and guilt. (AU)