Conflict and resistance in the political philosophy of Spinoza

• Grant number: 14/25461-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: November 30, 2015
• End date: August 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Ethics
• Principal Investigator: Marilena de Souza Chauí
• Grantee: Daniel Santos da Silva
• Supervisor: Vitorio Morfino
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/00935-0 - Conflict and resistance in the political philosophy of Spinoza, BP.PD

Abstract

This project seeks to determine the issues to be addressed in research outside of Brazil. To deepen our understanding of the need to involve, in Spinoza's politic, the concepts of conflict and resistance, we plan to open a more explicit dialogue with Machiavelli - for whom the constitution of the politic is permeated by essential conflicts to freedom - and from there to analyze and expand conceptually in terms which necessarily the multiple constitution of the political body requires and produces certain forms of conflict and resistance. (AU)