Hegel, Spinoza e o indivíduo : fraqueza ou fortaleza?

Abstract

The present dissertation presents a debate with an onto-theological background involving the following authors: G.W.F Hegel and Baruch Spinoza. Hegel authored a whole chapter in one of his main texts, the Lectures on the History of Philosophy, of a severe critique to Spinoza, his predecessor to whom, on the other hand, he owes a declared esteem. Due to this, we sought to mark out the positions of both authors in respect to their opinions on the relationship of the individual and the absolute, in the process of purging Spinoza’s system through finding the concept of individuality in its effectiveness under Hegel’s sight. Our work was dedicated to a critical methodological analysis that took each of the authors to our object of study, the individual.