O tempo das partes. Temporalidade e perspectiva em Espinosa

Spinozism has been frequently associated with the image of the circle, as an allusive metaphor of an atemporal being and an eternal knowledge. Concretely, Hegel used this association to celebrate Spinoza’s conception of infinity in act; and he interpreted the geometric illustration of Letter 12 in the terms of that connection between true infinity and circularity. In the present work, we question that reading, and we use Spinoza’s example of the non-concentric circles to thematize his special conception of determination and limit. Through the ontological comprehension of finite things as singular durations, it is possible to understand in what sense “time” is, for Spinoza, an imaginary reality which has its own effectiveness.