Decir la verdad: la pregunta por lo político en la filosofía de Baruch Spinoza

Abstract

We hold in this article that words, far from being treated as an obstacle that may hinder the way to rationalism, as Stuart Hampshire and David Savan seem to assert, constitute a central methodological and political problem in the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Words provide a home not only for the sense and senselessness of community, but also for the truth. An analysis of their usage in the works of this Dutch thinker allow us to examine the preferred political order in Spinoza’s perspective: an order based on communication that remains in opposition to the existence of any authority that could monopolize and define arbitrarily the historical content of the sense and truth in a community.