Spinoza et le problème de l’akrasia : Un aspect négligé de l’ordo geometricus

Abstract

The question of the weakness of the will, traditionally named akra- sia after Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Book III), is tackled in part 4 of Spinoza's Ethics. After a brief presentation of this problematic in the Ethics, the author shows how the geometrical order chosen by Spinoza to write his book constitutes a great part of the strategy put in place to concretely resolve this question.