The encounter between Lucretius and Spinoza

Author(s)

Diego Ramos Lanciote

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2021-12-14

Examining board members

João Carlos Kfouri Quartim de Moraes; Vittorio Morfino; Homero Santiago; Márcio Augusto Damin Custódio; Fátima Regina Rodrigues Évora

• Advisor: João Carlos Kfouri Quartim de Moraes

Abstract

The PhD thesis has as its object the distinction between "aleatory necessity" and "teleological necessity" based on Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Spinoza's Ethica proposing their speculative equivalence and observing them as writings of materialistic philosophical practice. To promote this distinction and support the "aleatory necessity", two theses are mobilized: 1) the thesis of the immutability of the Whole and 2) the thesis of equivalence between the categories of clinamen (Lucretius) and connexio (Spinoza) examining its necessary elements, the theories of individuality, imagination, affectivity and some aspects of ethical liberation in both authors, above all, centering on some fundamental constructs of the problem of becoming (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 17/12409-1 - The encounter between Lucretius and Spinoza
• Grantee: Diego Ramos Lanciote
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)