Unity between mind and body in the affective experience in Spinoza

Author(s)

Rafael dos Santos Monteiro

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2017-12-06

Examining board members

Luís César Guimarães Oliva; Marcos Ferreira de Paula; Homero Silveira Santiago

• Advisor: Luís César Guimarães Oliva

Abstract

If are body and mind, respectively, modes of thought attributes and extension, the mental and the body experience must be developed as these attributes are and express the nature of the one substance, ie without any causal relationship between them and following the same order of succession and connection of causes and things. In the absence of a mechanism to explain the relationship between mind and body for any kind of direct interaction, the question is how to understand the unity of a essence expressed in two different realities, in the case of man, and endless, in the case of God, without being separated from them, but reunited in the self- producing actuality of substance. This text aims at last deal with the mind and body unity in Espinosa and how it can best be understood through it to Spinoza science of human feelings. With this, intending to go beyond the unit in ontological terms, we will target investigate it on equality between mind and body as they are shown in a certain affective experience. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/01844-0 - Psychophysical monism and mixed discourse in Spinoza
• Grantee: Rafael dos Santos Monteiro
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master