Abstract:The aim of this article is to focus, based on Spinoza’s philosophy, on the concept of "ethical-political suffering", necessarily articulating it to the concepts of “good encounters” developed by Gilles Deleuze and Spinoza’s “power of acting”. For that, we weave a reflection on the concept of freedom for this author, going through his masterpiece, Ethics, articulated with some of his readers and interlocutors. We argue that recognizing the ontological and epistemological basis of these concepts allows us to dem… Show more
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