The concept of power (potentia) in the metaphysics of Benedict Spinoza

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Sententiae Pub Date : 2023-12-31 DOI:10.31649/sent12.01.003

Rostyslav Dymerets

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Abstract

The author examines Spinoza's view of (1) the relationship between modes of substance and divine power, particularly in the context of the limitations of each individual mode, (2) the process of realizing divine power within a specific mode. The text proves that the representation of all things as modes of substance, or divine modes, allows Spinoza to endow them with divine power. For a thing that exists in time and has duration, the preservation of existence means creation. Thus, maintaining the existence of a thing is identical to its creation. The power of a substance, expressed in its potency, is manifested in the duration of a thing. The specified duration is a manifestation of the substance's power, that is, its ability to create, preserve, and destroy things in their existence.

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本尼迪克特-斯宾诺莎形而上学中的权力（potentia）概念

作者研究了斯宾诺莎对以下问题的看法：(1) 物质模式与神力之间的关系，尤其是在每种模式的局限性方面；(2) 在特定模式中实现神力的过程。文中证明，将万物表述为物质模式或神力模式，使斯宾诺莎能够赋予它们神力。对于存在于时间中并有持续时间的事物来说，保持存在就意味着创造。因此，保持事物的存在就等于创造它。物质的力量体现在它的效力上，也体现在事物的持续时间上。特定的持续时间体现了物质的力量，即物质创造、保持和毁灭事物存在的能力。

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