Jesus by Baruch Spinoza

Spinoza's interest in the character Jesus is, fundamentally, the "Christ according to the spirit", since it is in his spirit that the "wisdom of God" has been manifested (= Nature, it is a god without a god, not transcendent), since the spirit ("kind of spiritual automa...

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Author: Cascante, Luis Diego
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2024
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/58420
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/58420
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Jesús Spinoziano
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Jesus by Baruch Spinoza
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Summary:Spinoza's interest in the character Jesus is, fundamentally, the "Christ according to the spirit", since it is in his spirit that the "wisdom of God" has been manifested (= Nature, it is a god without a god, not transcendent), since the spirit ("kind of spiritual automaton") displays an autonomous order of its own ideas (TIE 85), as well as to propose it as a reference for coexistence (politically) and to suppress fear (TIE 1, E4P54 and P63E, TP fifteen). Ethics and TTP, with their political implications (adequate theory), should not and cannot be, in radice, based on metaphysical assumptions (divine Jesus and universal love), but on conatus. The creativity of the conatus makes its activity essential (praxic).