FELIPE BELLEI CORDEIRO

The research aims to investigate a unique pertinence of Spinoza's Ethics within the tradition of medicine of anima. This tradition refers to the Hippocratic principles and their methods of investigating and caring for man, his body and his vital principle (breath, psyche, soul, anima), and whose methodological marks remain within the philosophical tradition. A highlight of this articulation, of important dialogue for Spinoza, is the work Tusculanas by Cícero, which identifies the two arts: "Animi medicina, philosophia". In this project we propose: 1) to investigate how the transmission of Hippocratic operational concepts (nature, health, disease, diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, etc.) is transmitted and 2) to detail the proposal for a curative path laid out in part V of the Ethics for the ill anima, servant of the passions, namely: the internalization of causality (from transitive causality to immanent causality) and the generation of active affects.