Conhecimento, afeto e paixão em Nietzsche e Spinoza: aproximações entre Aurora, A gaia ciência e a Ética.

Abstract

The dissertation aims to identify and relate knowledge, affection and passion in Nietzsche and Spinoza. Such a question is possible in view of the fact that, in a letter to Franz Overbeck of July 1881, Nietzsche identifies in the Dutch philosopher a common philosophical conception: “to make knowledge the most powerful affection”. Thus, the dissertation proposes the following problem, which will be limited to the period of correspondence (1881/1882): what is the link between knowledge and passion in Nietzsche? How is knowledge linked to affections in Spinoza? Is there an affection called knowledge or can knowledge be affective? Does the term "affection", used by Nietzsche in his letter, come close to the term "passion", used to refer to knowledge in the works produced in that period? Is a passion of knowledge possible or can knowledge be a passion? From the problematic, the dissertation is structured to reflect on concepts that permeate both authors: conception of affections and passions as natural, criticism of free will and moral formulations.