Ai confini dell’immagine: I modi non esistenti nel pensiero di Baruch Spinoza
Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Francesco Belmonte
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/3
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 399-422 File size 312 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2025-003003
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In this paper, it will be examinated addresses the paradox of modes that exist although they do not exist, which has its central place in Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics II, p. 8. It will be argued that argues that there is no ambiguity of the proposition, even if it could sound undecidable from an historical-philosophical point of view, due to the lack of an explicit theory of distinctions. Thus, the problem of non-existent modes will be theoretically framed in relation to the eternal status of substance by showing that: 1) there is no contradiction in thinking something that does not exist;; 2) starting from the definition of God, all modes must necessarily give themselves and their non-existence is implied in the definition of God itself;; 3) the problem under consideration concerns rather the constitutive allusiveness of every image regarding God’s eternal actuality and its infinite production.
Keywords: formal essence;; objective essence;; distinction;; actual essence;; allusiveness.
Francesco Belmonte, Ai confini dell’immagine: I modi non esistenti nel pensiero di Baruch Spinoza in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 3/2025, pp 399-422, DOI: 10.3280/SF2025-003003