“Um verme no sangue” - considerações sobre a relação Todo/partes na filosofia de Espinosa1

“Deus seu Natura” is a key statement in Spinoza’s philosophy. From this equivalence he infers some of the basic concepts of his Ethics. This paper stresses some of the consequences of this expression, discussing Spinoza’s pantheism, the conceivable conciliation between the indivisibility of the Substance and the existence of parts in Nature, the existence of a matter without parts, the status of bodies as parts and as wholes, the parts of the mind, man as part of Nature. Among several writings on these issues, letter XXXII to Oldenburg helps us to solve these problems.