¿El ciudadano que resiste o el sujeto que obedece? Tensiones entre la resistencia y la obediencia en la filosofía de Spinoza

Abstract

This article analyzes the relationship between obedience and resistance in the thought of Baruch
Spinoza. To demonstrate the contingent and not necessary relationship that exists between the
terms, the author divides the article into three parts. The first part analyzes resistance from the relationship between desire and ingenium. The second part focuses on the problem of obedience from
the figure of the subject and his relationship with the State. The third and final part analyzes the
forms of political freedom in Spinoza’s thought and shows how the relationship between obedience
and resistance does not necessarily imply the priority of the second over the first