The logic of imperium in political treatise: passions and instituitions

• Grant number: 14/25535-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: January 14, 2015
• End date: April 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Marilena de Souza Chauí
• Grantee: Andre Menezes Rocha
• Supervisor: Chantal Jaquet
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/24756-4 - About the genesis of the experience and the meaning of discourse in Spinoza's Political Treatise., BP.PD

Abstract

The objective is the investigation of Spinoza's political discourse in Political Treatise with emphasis on definitions that, in chapters II and III, are the ontological foundations of the science of political power's logic that Spinoza develops in the analysis of the imperium in the chapters on the monarchy, aristocracy and democracy. (AU)