Abstract

RODRIGUEZ BENAVIDES, Iván Ramón. The Institution of the State as a veluti mente. Prax. filos. [online]. 2020, n.50, suppl.1, pp.59-72. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i50.8961.

The exposure of the political regimes of the Political Treatise is not random; Spinoza first exposes the least convenient, that is, the monarchist, then the one that suits the most, the aristocracy, and finally democracy, a regime he conceives as the most perfect. This exposure criterion does not serve as a criterion to investigate what is the value of democracy for Spinoza, but it also allows us to investigate what is the main obstacle or danger that democracy must face so that it can really be instituted by citizens, and so that it is not instrumentalized by the particular interests of the rulers and politicians on duty.

Keywords : Democracy; Freedom; Deception; Agreement; Deliberation.

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