In this article, using Spinoza’s treatment of the image of the political body, I aim to show what happens to the concept of a healthy commonwealth linked to a monarchist model of political order when transformed into a new context: the emergence of a democratic political order. The traditional representation of the body politic becomes problematic when people, understood as individual natural bodies, are taken as the starting point in political theory. Spinoza’s understanding of the composite body, and the assumption that each body is composed, raises the question of the stability or instability of this composition. This has implications for the way one looks at the political order’s conditions of possibility, I argue, and at the same time reveals the imaginary nature of the

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从国王的两个身体到人民的两个身体：斯宾诺莎论身体政治

在本文中，利用斯宾诺莎对政治机构形象的处理，我旨在展示与君主主义政治秩序模型相关联的健康英联邦概念在转化为新语境时会发生什么：民主政治秩序的出现. 当人们被理解为个体的自然身体时，政治身体的传统表征就变得有问题了。斯宾诺莎对复合物体的理解，以及每个物体都是组合的假设，提出了这种组合的稳定性或不稳定性的问题。我认为，这对人们看待政治秩序的可能性条件的方式有影响，同时也揭示了政治秩序的想象本质。