Abstract

Spinoza might solve the Body-Mind problem with parallelism: physical events are correlated instantly by mental events, which are ideas. Everyone has a force needing a direction to create a motion. With adequate knowledge, we can reallocate the Emotion adequately to empower us. Modern Spinozism can be summed up as: full naturalism, radical determinism, theoretical antihumanism, denunciation of methodological individualism, and pure relational approach of human realities. Bringing Spinoza in nowadays analysis of law unfolds two paths of study: law is institutions that redirect emotions; law is a tool for emancipation of passions. This leads to four major consequences: legal power is factual power; normativity is based on positive emotions more than on negative ones such as coercion; legal rules are a factor of autonomy and empowerment; jurisprudence can be a causal science.