Fuentes latinas en la epístola 12 de Spinoza: ¿Cicerón, Suárez o Nizolius?

Martin Ruiz-Inda

doi:10.34624/agora.27.42335

Authors

Martin Ruiz-Inda Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34624/agora.27.42335

Keywords:

Spinoza, Epistola 12, Cicero, Suárez, Nizolius, Latin sources

Abstract

In Epistle 12 Spinoza uses two significant and unusual expressions: “a rebus aeternis fluit” and “ab aeternitate fluunt”. It has been argued that its origin can be found in De divinatione of Cicero, whose work Spinoza would have known in depth, although it can also be found in the Disputationes metaphysicae of Suárez, the main representative of the scholasticism of the time. In the present work, the reasons that would speak in favour of one or the other hypothesis are presented. It also examines the intermediaries that may have existed between the aforementioned authors and Spinoza, in particular the Thesaurus Ciceronianus by Marius Nizolius, a book that seems to explain the presence of numerous Ciceronian works in Spinoza, and the Meletemata philosophica by Adriaan Heereboord.

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