Abstract

In the texts of Pascal and Spinoza we can find a contradictionaccording to which the imagination leads to error, but it is not reducedto that. In view of this, the primordial question of this article is how tounderstand this tension: why the imagination in Pascal and in Espinosais led to error? In which sense can the effects of the deceptive powerin Pascal also result in something positive? Why in Spinoza the act ofimagining remains unscathed, in spite of the articulations that makethe imaginative perception prone to error? We will examine the reasonswhy Pascal and Spinoza place the imagination under this contradiction,evaluating comparatively its general implications.