DOUGLAS NUNES VIEIRA

In this research, I seek to understand how the philosopher Spinoza (1632-1677) conceives repentance not only as a sad passion; but, above all, as an affective experience of political and moral consequences. We do not regret any action. For Spinoza, in his work Ethics, we regret one action or another according to an external judgment carried out by a person for whom we nurtured love one day, inasmuch as this judgment determines the way we are affected by our own actions and , thus, the way we perceive ourselves. In that sense, repentance does not only make us the cause of our own sadness; but, above all, judges of ourselves.