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      Spinoza on freedom, individual rights and public power Translated title: Libertad, derechos individuales y poder público de acuerdo con Spinoza

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          This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of Spinoza's most conspicuous political doctrines: his rejection of classical contractualism, his doctrine of the equivalence of right and power, his description of the limits of government either as logical limitations or as restrictions, not of power, but of impotence, and his defence of democracy as the most natural and most rational form of the state. Also, two alleged paradoxes that permeate Spinoza's political thought are solved: the conflict between a naturalistic approach and a discourse whose purpose is to shed light on the grounds of political legitimacy, and the tension between the dynamics of freedom and the dynamics of power. Far from obsolete, Spinoza's political philosophy comes to light as able to meet the demands of the contemporary world

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          El objetivo de este artículo es arrojar luz sobre las doctrinas políticas más significativas de Spinoza: su rechazo del contractualismo clásico, la tesis de la equivalencia de derecho y poder, la descripción de los límites del gobierno bien como limitaciones lógicas o como medios para garantizar la independencia y el poder del estado, y su refrendo de la democracia como la forma más natural y racional de constitución política. Además, se resuelven dos paradojas que, supuestamente, amenazan con desarticular su pensamiento político: el conflicto entre una perspectiva naturalista y un discurso que pretende alcanzar los fundamentos de la legitimidad política, y la tensión entre la dinámica de la libertad y la del poder. El resultado es una vindicación de la relevancia de la filosofía política de Spinoza para el mundo contemporáneo

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                pafi
                Praxis Filosófica
                Prax. filos.
                Universidad del Valle (Cali )
                0120-4688
                June 2015
                : 0
                : 40
                : 11-34
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                S0120-46882015000100001
                af02a77b-2c95-4d38-a59c-0e56d0438c7d

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0120-4688&lng=en
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                PHILOSOPHY

                General philosophy
                Democracy,Freedom,Hobbes,Natural Rights,Public Power,Democracia,derechos naturales,libertad,poder público

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