Politics like a Physics of Power in Spinoza
Abstract
Politics consists in the physical organization and immanent development of the natural potency of individuals. That means that the constitutional organs of the sovereign power –whose subject is the multitude– are the parts of a whole conceived like an open ecosystem –it works like a composed individual– and based on some characteristics: the proportions of his elements, a decentralized and counterbalanced model and the permanent regeneration of its structures. This systemic complexity makes democracy better because lets more compatibility for everybody expression in liberty.Downloads
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