Question 1

How does Deleuze describe individuality in Spinoza’s philosophy?

Accepted Answer

Every individual is linked within Being through three strata, and at least in the first stratum each individual is composed of an infinity of extensible parts rather than existing as something simple.

Question 2

What are “simplest bodies” in this lecture, according to Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza?

Accepted Answer

Simplest bodies are not atoms and not indefinite parts. They function as ultimate terms that are infinitely minute, so they cannot be treated as single, countable elements.

Question 3

Why does the lecture emphasize the seventeenth-century “actual infinite”?

Accepted Answer

The actual infinite is neither finite nor indefinite: it allows ultimate terms that are endless (to infinity). This framework explains how analysis reaches final terms without adopting indefinite divisibility.