The encounter between Lucretius and Spinoza

• Grant number: 17/12409-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: September 01, 2017
• End date: September 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: João Carlos Kfouri Quartim de Moraes
• Grantee: Diego Ramos Lanciote
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/19481-2 - The encounter between Lucretius and Spinoza, BE.EP.DD

Abstract

The encounter between the structures of thought of Lucretius and Spinoza allows us to clearly operate a distinction between aleatory necessity and teleological necessity promoting the conceptualization of the first one and analyzing its expressions on the fields of Ontology, Anthropology, History and Politics. In this way, are articulated four parts: i) the immutability of the Whole; ii) the transience; iii) the philosophical anthropology; and iv) politics and liberation. Starting from the presence of Lucretius historically - the image of Lucretius in the conjuncture of production of Spinoza - as well as textually - through the semantic field and the problematic raised from the Epistola 56 - it's constructed the initial premises for the way which guides these parts investigating the encounter between both authors passing through Ethica, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and Tractatus Politicus. Not only Spinoza is a fruitful reader of De Rerum Natura, as far as Lucretius is a reader of Spinoza. So that, both structures of thought are mobilized irreducibly one against another to, finally, compose the concept of aleatory necessity in its confluence of effects and its divergences of articulations between signifiers. Such expressions in the fields listed show the equivalence and even the structural homology capable to build the interpretation of the same strategy of intervention of the philosophical practice differentiated in its contents by its distinct conjunctures of production, which configures two moments of the repetitions of the materialistic tendency and its effectivity in the occidental history of thought. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LANCIOTE, Diego Ramos. The encounter between Lucretius and Spinoza. 2021. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.