Espinosa: um pensamento da atualidade e da crítica à utopia política

This article tries to locate some points in which the Spinoza’s criticism of the philosophy of utopian politics can be found, philosophy which is very often based on a transcendent notion of power. We do that giving relief to some notions, like that of experience and that of individual, besides focusing the importance of the notion of conatus in the establishment of an ontology of the actuality of the human nature, in which, from the cognitive point of view, imaginative and rational knowledge affirm the actuality of this human nature and allow the proposition of political regimes based on such actuality