The Reason of State. Politics and Ontology on Spinoza
Abstract
Spinoza’s political theory and within it the analysis of democracy as a form of State, exercises a materialist criticism of scholastic and enlightened dogma, based on the redefinition of political rationality, conceived as a sequence of the reason of infinite Substance, multiple causal networks unaware of understanding and will. Inside this analytical frame, democracy is an ontological theocracy, government of necessary laws in political scale and overlooking the stability of State.
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