The intellectual factory of the "Treatese on the improvement of the understanding" (true given idea, method and art in Spinoza's philosophy)
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Baruch SpinozaThéorie de la connaissance
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La première philosophie de Spinoza est constituée d'une réforme de l'intellect dont l'enjeu, largement étudié par la tradition universitaire française, dépasse le cadre d'un premier écrit. Le " Traité de la réforme de l'intellect " énonce la Méthode spinozienne comme production du vrai sur l'intellect et la Nature à partir de l'idée vraie donnée. Ce point de départ est le fondement suffisant d'une voie basculant vers la philosophie éthique, tout en désignant un donné à la fois produit et disponible pour former un grand nombre d'œuvres intellectuelles suivant un ordre et un automatisme nécessaires. Le donné spinozien déborde néanmoins le territoire de l'idée vraie donnée, de son usage et de l'analogie spinozienne entre production technique et production intellectuelle car il désigne aussi l'ensemble des instruments culturels dont dispose Spinoza pour former sa propre œuvre. Expériences, histoires, sciences, données certaines de l'Ecriture, idées des affections du corps, pratiques techniques et politiques constituent des points de départ pour les constructions spinoziennes de la philosophie future. La fabrique intellectuelle, véritable art de penser en forgeant des concepts tout en se démarquant des traditions, est donc non seulement une première voie suivie par Spinoza vers la philosophie future renouvelant les modèles artificialistes de la Méthode à la Renaissance, mais également un foyer à partir duquel il est possible de dégager une intelligibilité de la pratique spinozienne de la philosophie sur le modèle de l'art.Spinoza's first philosophy is based upon the idea of improvement of the intellect. Its implication, wich it is a French tradition for academics to study, go beyond the frame of a first writing. The "Treatese on the improvement of the understanding" presents the spinozian methos as the production of truth on intellect and nature from the true given idea. This starting point is sufficient to act as the foundation of a new way leading to ethical philosophy while pointing towards data that is both produced and available for use in order to create a vast amount of intellectual works following necessary order and automatism. However, spinozian data overflows the field of the true idea given as well as the spinozian analogy between technical and intellectual productions, since it also involves the cultural devices available fo Spinoza to create is own work. Experiences, histories, sciences, definit datas of the scriptures, corporal modifications, technical and political practices, all constitute the starting point for Spinoza's constructions of the future philosophy. The intellectual factory, as real art of thinking making concepts and dissociating oneself from traditions, is therefore not only a first way followed by Spinoza towards the future philosophy, giving new life to artificalist models of the method during Renaissance, but it's also a source, from which it is possible to understand Spinoza's practice of philosophy on the pattern of art.
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