Sunday, January 15, 2012

Will, God, Self-Causality

Since, for Spinoza, God = Nature, it follows for him that natural power = divine power, and that natural 'right' = divine 'right'. In other words, taking into account Spinoza's political theory makes it difficult to interpret the intuition of God as either a moment of Leibnizian enlightenment, or as one of Schopenhauerian resignation, rather than as one of personal empowerment, i. e. as one of the discovery of one's divine powers. Now, one divine power is self-causality, one aspect of which is, therefore, expressed in Extension. Hence, the intuition of God entails the discovery of Will, i. e. of Motility, a discovery which thereby exposes as inadequate the traditional idea that one's Body is essentially inert.

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