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Philosophers comment on the Ethics in their native languages. They choose 5 texts and develop a strong concept of the Ethics. A general title accompanies their comments. Through their choices, they offer possible entries to understand the Ethics and tracing an original approach to Spinozist philosophy. They explain how the chosen texts are linked and what concept they compose.

Many philosophers can choose the same text, which opens the debate.

The 100 invited philosophers arrange, as they wish, the contents of Ethica. So there will be texts without comments.

Each comment is accompanied by its written transcription, available in several languages.

All of the comments thus form a map of Spinozist research at the beginning of the 21st century.

See the list of philosophers and of their choices at the bottom of the page

Nathalie Chouchan, philosophe

Technical details

Philosophers addresse the user, facing the camera.

The video image is 16/9 inverted in the application for aesthetic and ergonomic reasons.

Both cameras planned will have to adapt to the constraints of a traveling shooting, without harming the harmony between the different sequences.

Exteriors-nights

When everything is gone in the night, "everything is gone" appears. Maurice Blanchot

Thomas Lallier

La nuit filmée

A single night to accompany the readings of the Ethics filmed in twenty countries. It is composed of shots of a few seconds, inhabited or not, photographs in durations, with a simple plastic intention.

These short sequences accompany the video comments and are available to the user.

In the night, our senses are disoriented, everything becomes uncertain, the forms, the sounds, the materials are concealed. The nocturnal landscapes envelop us. The night transforms us, the time is experienced in another way. On the contrary, the electric, artificial night reveals everything, compels us. Illuminations and obscurities punctuate together, this filmed night.

The filming guideline is experimentation related to the diffraction of light through different lenses, through the movements of lights in the night, reflections in mirror, playing on the speed of recording and which show the real, echoing Spinoza, lens polisher.

Video financing

Videos, Comments and Exteriors-nights are not yet funded. They will represent more than 150 hours of commentary available in the application, filmed in more than 20 countries around the world.

We need your help, if you are interested in financing videos, please contact, please contact Patrick Fontana.

Thomas Lallier

List of participating philosophers and their choices

• Cecilia Abdo Ferez

  1. La producción de lo justo
     • Proposition 37, Part IV
     • Proposition 37 Scol. 1, Part IV
     • Proposition 37 Scol. 2, Part IV
     • Proposition 68, Part IV
     • Proposition 68 Scol., Part IV

• Jacob Adler

• Saverio Ansaldi

  1. Les images de Dieu
     • Proposition 4, Part V
     • Proposition 4 Scol., Part V
     • Proposition 14, Part V
  2. Puissance et éternité des images
     • Proposition 39, Part V

• A. Arbex Valadares

• Henri Atlan

  1. • Proposition 16, Part I
     • Proposition 7, Part II
     • Proposition 2, Part III
     • Proposition 14, Part IV
     • Proposition 1, Part V

• Steve Barbone

• Adriana Barin de Azevedo

  1. O aprendizado do que pode um corpo
     • Proposition 2 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 13 post.3, Part II
     • Proposition 51, Part III
     • Proposition 51 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 39, Part IV

• Fernando Bonadia

  1. A definição de comum
     • Proposition 37, Part II
  2. Educação e arrependimento
     • Definition 27 of Emotions, Part III
  3. Educação e razão
     • Chapter 9, Part IV
  4. O sentido da educação
     • Chapter 13, Part IV
  5. Amor dos pais e educação dos filhos
     • Chapter 20, Part IV

• Roberto Bordoli

  1. Agir entre savoir et sagesse
     • Proposition 15, Part I
     • Proposition 36, Part I
     • Proposition 13, Part II
     • Proposition 14, Part IV
     • Proposition 42, Part V
     • Proposition 42 Scol., Part V

• Daniela Bostrenghi

  1. Imaginandi potentia
     • Proposition 17 Scol., Part II
  2. Sulla "imitatio affectuum"
     • Proposition 27, Part III
     • Proposition 27 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 27 Coroll. 1, Part III
     • Proposition 27, Coroll. 2, Part III
     • Proposition 27, Coroll. 3, Part III
  3. Sull'uomo "pars Naturae" e "affectibus obnoxius"
     • Proposition 4 Coroll., Part IV
  4. Sull'uomo libero e la "civitas"
     • Proposition 73, Part IV
  5. Affectus, qui desinit esse passio
     • Proposition 3, Part V
     • Proposition 3 Coroll., Part V

• Filip Buyse

  1. Galilée et Spinoza; Spinoza et Galilée
     • Appendix, Part I
     • Proposition 13 Definition, Part II
     • Proposition 16, Part II
     • Proposition 39, Part IV
     • Proposition 17, Part V

• Riccardo Caporali

  1. Causa e potenza
     • Proposition 25 Scol., Part I
     • Appendix, Part I
     • Proposition 3 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 20 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 67, Part IV

• Anish Chakravarty

  1. Indivisibility of Extension and its attribution to God
     • Proposition 12, Part I
     • Proposition 13, Part I
     • Proposition 13, Coroll., Part I
     • Proposition 15, Part I
     • Proposition 2, Part II

• Marilena Chaui

• Nathalie Chouchan

  1. • Proposition 13 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 29 Coroll., Part II
     • Proposition 57, Part III
     • Proposition 45 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 73, Part IV

• Yves Citton

  1. Spinoza médiologue : une logique des affections (médiatiques)
     • Proposition 14, Part III
     • Proposition 15, Part III
     • Proposition 16, Part III
     • Proposition 17, Part III
     • Proposition 18, Part III

• Edwin Curley

• Philippe Danino

  1. Philosophes et philosophie
     • Proposition 10 Scol.of Cor., Part II
     • Proposition 40 Scol. 1, Part II
     • Proposition 57 Scol., Part III
     • Definition 44 of Emotions, Part III
     • Preface, Part V

• Eric Delassus

  1. • Proposition 13, Part II
     • Proposition 2, Part III
     • Proposition 4, Part III
     • Proposition 20 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 24, Part V

• Filippo Del Lucchese

• Julien Douçot

  1. La joie d'exister et la motricité
     • Proposition 13, Part II
     • Proposition 13 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 13 Axiom 1, Part II
     • Proposition 13 Axiom 2, Part II
     • Proposition 13 Lem. 1, Part II
     • Proposition 57 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 38, Part IV
     • Proposition 39, Part IV
     • Proposition 39, Part V

• Philippe Drieux

  1. C'est par un seul et même affect que l'homme est dit tant agir que pâtir
     • Proposition 5, Part IV

• Nicolas Duvoux

  1. Une politique de la raison
     • Proposition 1, Part IV (La possibilité d'une éthique)
     • Proposition 14, Part IV (Faiblesse de la raison à l'état de commandement)
     • Proposition 18 Scol., Part IV (Force de la politique)
     • Proposition 46 Scol., Part IV (Le pardon des offenses : un enseignement rationnel?)
     • Proposition 65, Part IV La politique du pire est toujours la pire politique)

• Boros Gabor

• Mariana Gainza

  1. La positividad de la imaginación y el conocimiento verdadero
     • Proposition 35 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 1, Part IV
     • Proposition 1 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 7, Part IV
     • Proposition 14, Part IV

• Dan Garber

• Rodolfo Garau

• Pascale Gillot

  1. • Proposition 35 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 48, Part II
     • Proposition 48 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 49, Part II
     • Proposition 49 Scol., Part II

• Baptiste Grasset

• Joe Keith Green

• John Grey

  1. Of Two Minds
     • Definition 7, Part II
     • Proposition 13 Definition, Part II
     • Proposition 4, Part III
     • Proposition 37 Scol. 1, Part IV
     • Proposition 40 Coroll., Part V
     • Proposition 40 Scol., Part V

• Céline Hervet

  1. Les langages de la haine
     • Proposition 46, Part III
     • Definition 11 of Emotions, Part III
     • Proposition 45, Part IV
     • Proposition 45 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 45 Coroll. 1, Part IV
     • Proposition 45 Coroll. 2, Part IV

• Ericka Marie Itokazu

• Augusto Illuminati

  1. Stratégie de l'oeuvre
     • Definition 1, Part I
  2. Contre la théologie politique
     • Proposition 3 Scol., Part II
  3. Le moment machiavélien
     • Proposition 7, Part II
     • Proposition 7 Coroll., Part II
  4. Primauté de la relation
     • Proposition 5, Part IV
  5. Multitude, imagination et révolution
     • Proposition 20, Part V

• Nicolas Israel

  1. La présence d'esprit
     • Proposition 10 Scol., Part V

• Susan James

• Chantal Jaquet

  1. Éternité rapport corps, esprit affects
     • Definition 8, Part I
     • Proposition 21 Scol., Part II
     • Definition 3, Part III

• Matt Kisner

• Julie Klein

• Olli Koistinen

• Yoshiyuki Koizumi

  1. Contemplation and justice
     • Proposition 20, Part IV
     • Proposition 26, Part IV
     • Proposition 28, Part IV
     • Proposition 35, Part IV
     • Proposition 36, Part IV
     • Proposition 37, Part IV
     • Proposition 20, Part V
     • Proposition 20 Scol., Part V

• Mogens Laerke

  1. Sur la preuve cosmologique et sur ce qu'on peut tirer d'une démonstration ratée
     • Proposition 11 Another Proof 2, Part I
  2. Sur l’intellect infini et ce qu'on appelle, outre-Atlantique, "God's Mind"
     • Proposition 17 Scol., Part I
  3. Sur le rapport d’immanence
     • Proposition 25 Scol., Part I
  4. Sur le statut du "terminus extensions"
     • Proposition 2, Part II
  5. Sur le langage philosophique de Spinoza
     • Definition 20 of Emotions, Part III

• Sophie Laveran

  1. La critique de la division
     • Proposition 15 Scol., Part I
  2. L'étonnante réintroduction de la notion de "partie"
     • Proposition 11 Coroll., Part II
  3. Un paradoxe de la logique mimétique : envie et pitié
     • Proposition 32, Part III
     • Proposition 32 Scol ., Part III
  4. L'imaginaire de la singularité
     • Proposition 52, Part III
     • Proposition 52 Scol., Part III
  5. La nouvelle alternative éthique : raison ou crainte
     • Proposition 63, Part IV
     • Proposition 63 Coroll ., Part IV
     • Proposition 63 Scol., Part IV

• Christian Lazzeri

  1. • Proposition 30, Part IV
     • Proposition 31, Part IV
     • Proposition 32, Part IV
     • Proposition 33, Part IV
     • Proposition 34, Part IV

• Michael LeBuffe

  1. Push and Pull : Striving, Perfection, and the Human Good
     • Proposition 6, Part III
     • Proposition 9 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 39 Scol., Part III
     • Definition 1, Part IV
     • Proposition 40, Part V

• Isabelle Ledoux

  1. Mémoire et représentation
     • Proposition 18 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 47 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 2 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 59 Scol.a, Part III
     • Proposition 23 Scol., Part V

• Alex Leite

  1. • Proposition 9, Part III
     • Proposition 9 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 10, Part III
     • Proposition 11, Part III
     • Proposition 12, Part III

• Beth Lord

  1. Social status and wealth
     • Proposition 32 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 55, Part III
     • Proposition 55 Coroll.1, Part III
     • Proposition 55 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 55 Coroll. 2, Part III
     • Proposition 51, Part IV
     • Proposition 57, Part IV
     • Proposition 57 Scol., Part IV
     • Chapter 17, Part IV
     • Chapter 29, Part IV

• Frédéric Lordon

  1. • Proposition 35 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 2 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 27, Part III
     • Proposition 14, Part IV
     • Proposition 59 Scol., Part IV

• Pierre Macherey

  1. La vie des hommes libres
     • Proposition 67, Part IV
     • Proposition 68, Part IV
     • Proposition 69, Part IV
     • Proposition 70, Part IV
     • Proposition 71, Part IV
     • Proposition 72, Part IV
     • Proposition 73, Part IV

• Andrey Maidansky

  1. Determination as mediation (dialectic)
     • Proposition 28, Part I
  2. Action as principle of individuation
     • Definition 7, Part II
  3. Scientia intuitiva as concrete knowledge
     • Proposition 40 Scol. 2,, Part II
     • Proposition 24, Part V
  4. Activity as perfection
     • Proposition 40, Part V
  5. perfecting the intellect: how logic joins ethics
     • Preface, Part V
     • Chapter 4, Part IV

• Syliane Malinowski Charles

  1. Définition de l'individu
     • Proposition 13 Definition, Part II
  2. Connaissance de soi de l'âme
     • Proposition 29, Part III
     • Proposition 29 Coroll., Part III
  3. Impuissance de la connaissance en tant que connaissance
     • Proposition 14, Part IV
  4. Sentiment d'éternité
     • Proposition 23 Scol., Part V
  5. Conscience de soi, de Dieu et des choses
     • Proposition 52 Scol., Part V

• Frédéric Manzini

  1. • Proposition 15, Part I
     • Preface, Part II
     • Proposition 42, Part II
     • Proposition 43, Part II
     • Preface, Part III
     • Proposition 1, Part V
     • Proposition 42, Part V

• Eugene Marshall

  1. Moving from passions to activity
     • Proposition 17 Scol., Part IV (I see the better and approve, but follow the worse)
     • Proposition 60, Part IV (Contrary desires can arise from different parts of the body or mind)
     • Proposition 2, Part V (Disconnecting our passions from the ideas of their causes)
     • Proposition 4 Scol., Part V (know our passions, but only as far as possible)
     • Proposition 29 Scol., Part V (we conceive things in two ways)

• André Martins

  1. Seul l’esprit fait des erreurs, non pas le corps
     • Proposition 35, Part II
  2. L'Amour
     • Proposition 13 Scol., Part III
     • Definition 6 of Emotions, Part III
  3. Relativité du bien et du mal
     • Proposition 65, Part IV
     • Proposition 65 Coroll., Part IV
  4. L’éternité de l’esprit
     • Proposition 21, Part V
     • Proposition 38, Part V

• Christophe Miqueu

• Warren Montag

• Vittorio Morfino

  1. Négation de la contingence et contingence de l’essence
     • Proposition 24, Part I
     • Proposition 25, Part I
     • Proposition 29, Part I
     • Definition 2, Part II
     • Proposition 10, Part II

• Myriam Morvan

  1. Quelques différences entre Dieu et les hommes
     • Proposition 34, Part I
     • Proposition 14, Part II
     • Proposition 55, Part III
     • Proposition 45, Part IV
     • Proposition 21, Part V

• Steven Nadler

  1. Spinoza’s God and the Meaning of Life
     • Appendix, Part I
     • Proposition 47, Part II
     • Proposition 37, Part IV
     • Proposition 59, Part IV
     • Proposition 67, Part IV
     • Proposition 23, Part V

• Antonio Negri

  1. • Proposition 35, Part IV
     • Proposition 35 Coroll. 1, Part IV
     • Proposition 35 Coroll. 2, Part IV
     • Proposition 35 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 36, Part IV
     • Proposition 36 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 37, Part IV
     • Proposition 37 Scol. 1, Part IV
     • Proposition 37 Scol. 2, Part IV

• Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung

• Knox Peden

• David Rabouin

• Charles Ramond

• Ursula Renz

• Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira

  1. L'ambivalence de l'imagination dans l'Éthique
     • Proposition 15 Scol., Part I
     • Proposition 40 Scol. 2, Part II
     • Proposition 29, Part III
     • Proposition 9, Part IV
     • Proposition 9 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 9 Coroll., Part IV
     • Proposition 20, Part V

• Maxime Rovere

  1. Comment devenir Dieu
     • Definition 6, Part I
     • Proposition 2, Part II
     • Proposition 14, Part V
     • Proposition 36, Part V

• Andrea Sangiacomo

  1. La passion de la puissance
     • Proposition 36, Part I
     • Postulate 1, Part III
     • Proposition 7, Part III
     • Proposition 29, Part IV
     • Proposition 59, Part IV
     • Proposition 59 Scol., Part IV

• Pascal Séverac

  1. Les paradoxes du perfectionnement
     • Definition 4 of Emotions, Part III
     • Definition 28 of Emotions, Part III
     • Axiom 4, Part IV
     • Proposition 20 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 39 Scol., Part IV

• Roberto Leon Ponczek

  1. The mind body probl in the Ethica II
     • Proposition 12, Part II
     • Proposition 12 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition 14, Part II

• Giannis Prelorentzos

• Mauricio Rocha

  1. • Proposition 33, Part I
     • Proposition 35 Scol. 1, Part I
     • Proposition 44, Part II
     • Proposition 47 Scol., Part II
     • Definition 3, Part IV
     • Definition 4, Part IV

• Emanuel Angelo da Rocha Fragoso

  1. • Axiom 1, Part I
     • Axiom 1, Part II
     • Definition 1, Part III
     • Proposition 40, Part IV
     • Proposition 40, Part V

• Sergio Rojas Peralta

  1. • Proposition 9 Coroll., Part IV
     • Proposition 10 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 11, Part IV
     • Proposition 12, Part IV
     • Proposition 5, Part V

• Michael Rosenthal

• Santiago Homero

• Amy M. Schmitter

• Eric Schliesser

• Robert Schnepf

• Hasana Sharp

• Fredrika Spindler

  1. Ce que peut le corps
     • Proposition 2 Scol., Part III
  2. Rester soi-même?
     • Proposition 39 Scol., Part IV
  3. Nous ne pouvons pas penser la mort
     • Proposition 53, Part IV
  4. Collectivité et liberté
     • Proposition 73, Part IV

• Piet Steenbakkers

  1. • Proposition 28, Part I
     • Preface, Part III
     • Proposition 4 Coroll., Part IV
     • Proposition 50 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 10, Part V

• Diego Tatián

  1. Le plaisir
     • Proposition 9 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 57 Scol., Part III
     • Proposition 19 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 45 Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 67, Part IV
     • Proposition 32, Part V

• Sebastian Torres

• Bruno Traversi

• Ericka Tucker

• Osamu Ueno

• Wiep van Bunge

  1. De radicale immanentie van God
     • Proposition 31, Part I
     • Proposition 31 Scol., Part I
  2. Spinoza's moraalfilosofie
     • Proposition 35, Part IV
     • Proposition 31 Scol., Part I

• Miriam van Reijen

  1. Everything that is and is not, that happens or doesn't happen, has a cause and knowing this cause means less suffering (of passions)
     • Proposition 11, Part I
     • Proposition 32, Part I
     • Proposition 48, Part II
     • Proposition 49, Part III
     • Proposition 4, Part IV
     • Chapter 1, Part IV
     • Chapter 7, Part IV
     • Proposition 6, Part V

• Dimitris Vardoulakis

  1. • Proposition 13, Part I
     • Proposition 49 Coroll., Part II
     • Proposition 45 Coroll. 2, Scol., Part IV
     • Proposition 3, Part V

• Valtteri Viljanen

  1. Determination to operation
     • Proposition 29, Part I
  2. Ontology illustrated
     • Proposition 8, Part II
     • Proposition 8 Coroll., Part II
     • Proposition 8 Scol., Part II
  3. Constitution of essence
     • Proposition 56, Part III
  4. Virtue as power
     • Definition 8, Part IV
  5. The third kind of knowledge
     • Proposition 31, Part V

• Stefano Visentin

  1. • Proposition 3 Scol., Part II
     • Proposition Definition of the emotions, Part III
     • Proposition 34, Part IV
     • Proposition 73, Part IV
     • Proposition 20, Part V

• Caroline Williams

• Elhanan Yakira

  1. • Proposition 15, Part V
     • Proposition 16, Part V
     • Proposition 17, Part V
     • Proposition 18, Part V
     • Proposition 19, Part V
     • Proposition 20, Part V

• Andrew Youpa

• Cristina Zaltieri

  1. La perfettibile perfezione : per una Bildung spinoziana
     • Proposition 13 Lem. 3, Part II
     • Preface, Part IV
     • Proposition 38, Part IV
     • Proposition 39 Scol., Part V

Digital projections

Digital projections allow the user to go further in the exploration of the text. They reveal the syntax of each proposition.

• 1. Each projection is drawn using the syntax of each text of the Ethics. Each point that forms the projection corresponds to a word or group of words in the text. This division by points makes visible the logical structure of the syntax. The points are connected by lines. Notes on the syntax accompany the projections.

• 2. We can play to distort the projection, unfold it. Each projection can return to a linear line of text. Movements : from top to bottom, lateral, in the depth of the field ... Projections are a combination of movement and rest, speed and slowness. The movement of projections reflects the general cohesion of the text, the multiplicity of projections, the infinite way of reading. General instability of projections.

Proposition 17, corollary 2, part. I.

• 3. The lines draw the projections. The lines can be stiff or curved. They are the same lengths.

• 4. The projections produce a constant speed. It is the force of things that increases or decreases the speed of projection.

• 5. Speed and acceleration are important to evaluate. At each moment each projection returns to its starting constant after absorbing external variations.

Trajectories

• 6. The projections have trajectories in space. The trajectories are based on the duration of a proposition in the Ethics. This duration corresponds to the number of connections of the text. At the end of its trajectory, the proposal disappears and reappears at its starting point. Define for each projection its coordinates all along its trajectory. The intersections of trajectories between projections occur continuously.

Part 1, Def. 7, prop. 17

• 7. The projections leave traces of their passages. Think of a possibility of evolution of projections. A degree of presence of a projection at different times in the Ethics. The traces are inscribed on other traces like the shocks between the projections. These shocks occur depending on the connections between propositions.

• 8. Archive of the first works on projections in French. ETHICA_FONTANA_PROJ2012.pdf

• 9. Distribution of the projections, according to the reasonings proposed by the text, in 5 families : Positive, Mixed, Negative, Absurd, Restrictive.

Part 1, Def. 1

Each family has identifiable peculiarities. To develop.

This distribution work was initiated by Julie Henry in 2014 from examples in latin.

Examples :

Part 1, Definitio 6

Per Deum / intelligo / ens absolute infinitum / hoc est / substantiam / constantem / infinitis attributis / quorum unumquodque / aeternam et infinitam essentiam / exprimit.

Note : Positive proposition. « ens » et « substantiam » sont sur le même plan : j’entends un étant / [j’entends] une substance. « quorum » introduit une subordonnée. Et peut-être faudrait-il faire un sort à la répétition d’ « infini ».

Part1, Definitio 7

Ea res / libera / dicitur / quae / ex sola suae naturae necessitate / existit / et / -a se sola- / ad agendum / determinatur. / Necessaria / autem vel potius / coacta / quae / -ab alio- / determinatur / ad existendum et operandum / certa ac determinata ratione.

Note : Positive proposition. « libera », « necessaria » et « coacta » sont sur le même plan : est dite libre / [est dite] nécessaire / ou plutôt [est dite] forcée. « quae » et « quae » introduise deux subordonnées parallèles. « -a se sola- » et « -ab alio- » introduisent un balancement : par elle-même / par autre chose [ce serait aussi intéressant de rendre graphiquement ces balancements].

Part 1, propositio 11

Deus / sive / substantia / constans / infinitis attributis / quorum unumquodque / aeternam et infinitam essentiam / exprimit, / necessario existit.

Note : Positive proposition. « deus » et « substantia » sont sur le même plan [il pourrait aussi y avoir une représentation spéciale pour tous les termes reliés par « seu » ou « sive »]. « quorum » introduit une subordonnée.

Part 1, propositio 14, corollarium 1

Hinc / clarissime sequitur / I° Deum / esse / unicum / hoc est / (per definitionem 6) / in rerum natura / non nisi / unam substantiam / dari / eamque / absolute infinitam / esse, / ut in scholio propositionis 10 / jam innuimus.

Note : Mixted proposition. « non nisi dari » constitue un groupe de sens. « hoc est » introduit une explicitation. Il pourrait y avoir un sort particulier pour toutes les affirmations mentionnant l’évidence de ce qu’elles affirment en regard de ce qui précède, en les reliant d’une certaine façon à ce qui précède.

Part 1, propositio 17, corollarium 1

Hinc sequitur / I° nullam dari / causam / quae / Deum / extrinsece vel intrinsece / praeter ipsius naturae perfectionem / incitet ad agendum.

Note : Negative proposition. (mais qui affirme paradoxalement quelque chose). La construction est complexe : « quae » introduit une subordonnée dont « causam » est le sujet, « incitet » le verbe et « Deum » le COD. « vel » introduit un balancement entre « extrinsece » et « intrisece ».

Part 1, propositio 20, corollarium 2

Sequitur / II° Deum / sive / omnia Dei attributa / esse immutabilia. / Nam / si / ratione existentiae mutarentur,/ deberent / etiam / (per propositionem praecedentem) / ratione essentiae mutari / hoc est / (ut per se notum) /ex veris falsa fieri, / quod est absurdum.

Note : Absurd proposition.

Part 4, propositio 7, corollarium

Affectus / quatenus / ad mentem refertur / nec coerceri / nec tolli / potest / nisi per ideam corporis affectionis / contrariae et fortioris / affectione qua patimur. / Nam / affectus / quo patimur / nec coerceri / nec tolli / potest / nisi per affectum eodem fortiorem eique contrarium / (per propositionem praecedentem) / hoc est / (per generalem affectuum definitionem) / nisi per ideam corporis affectionis fortioris et contrariae / affectioni qua patimur.

Note : Restrictive proposition.

The palette of Emotions

A color is attributed to the digital projections of the Emotions of Part III of the Ethics, from the three primary colors (in painting) red, blue, yellow. These three colors are assigned to the first three affects in the Ethics:

• Joy : yellow
• Sadness : blue
• Desire : red.

The other colors of the other affects derive from the three primary colors according to the palette.

Rigorous counterpoint

_Rigorous counterpoint edition of 5 posters (3mx3m) 2021

This project to be developed, is the logical continuation of Patrick Fontana's research on the connections between the texts of the Ethics. It consists of a moving digital graph, the Rigorous counterpoint (RCP), and an engraved catalog of the graphic identities of each text of the Ethics that the graph can compose.

Rigorous counterpoint development by Pierre-Yves Fave, Patrick Fontana with Nodebox, 2021

Two phases of work

The digital development of the graph. It will be added to the application or presented in installation.

932 engravings of the 932 texts of the Ethics : the catalog of graphic identities of the texts, in collaboration with Florence Hinnneburg, engraver with whom Patrick Fontana has been working for many years.

Partitions (musical) and trajectories

The Rigorous counterpoint imagine (musical) scores of Ethics from the connections between the texts.

In the Ethics texts are demonstrated by others in a specific order. Rigorous conter-point (RCP) assigns each text a trajectory and duration to traverse it all along the 5 parts of the Ethics. This path corresponds to the number of connections of each text in the Ethics.

RCP composes scores from the trajectories of all texts in connections. Through a set of speeds between the trajectories of each text, RCP imagines the logical progress of the connections in motion.

The Rigorous conter-point gives an "image / duration" of each text.

Exemple

The horizontal and vertical lines of the RCP are graduated from 1 to 932, which corresponds to the 932 texts that compose Ethics.

image : Fontana and Pierre-Yves Fave, 2015

For example Part 1, Definition 1 is used by :

• Part 1, proposition 7, demonstration
• Part1, proposition 24, demonstration
• Part V, proposition 35, démonstration.

Its trajectory is long since it begins at the beginning of the first part and ends almost at the end of the fifth part of the Ethics.

2. In videos, the proposition 17, corollary 2, Part I is demonstrated in the order of the demonstration by :

• Part 1, proposition 11
• Part 1, proposition 17
• Part 1, definition 7

and is subsequently used by :

• Part 1, proposition 29, demonstration
• Part 2, proposition 48, demonstration

The propositions connected to each other develop their trajectories at different rates.

videos : Pierre-Yves Fave, 2015

Catalog of Graphic identities of the propositions

The RCP gives an "image / duration" of each text. This "image / duration" becomes the graphic identity of the catalog.

It consists of 932 engravings of the graphic identities of the Ethique texts.

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