Spinoza/

Main Author: Della Rocca, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York: Routledge, 2008
Series:Routledge philosophers
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Spinoza's understanding and understanding Spinoza
  • Spinoza's understanding
  • Understanding Spinoza
  • The metaphysics of substance
  • Descartes and substance
  • Spinoza contra Descartes on substance
  • Modes
  • Necessitarianism
  • The purpose of it all
  • The human mind
  • Parallelism and representation
  • Essence and representation
  • Parallelism and mind-body identity
  • The idea of the human body
  • The pancreas problem, the pan problem, and panpsychism
  • Nothing but representation
  • Representation, will, and belief
  • Skepticism
  • Psychology : striving and self-preservation
  • Conatus
  • Desire, joy, and sadness
  • Love, hate, and all that
  • The ethics of the ethics
  • The good notion of the good
  • The right notion of the right
  • Knowledge and morality
  • Freedom and morality
  • Helping others
  • Lies and degrees of freedom
  • The state, religion, and scripture
  • Rights and power
  • Religion and the state
  • Scripture
  • Prophecy and the truth of the Bible
  • From PSR to eternity
  • The aftermath of Spinoza
  • Leibniz
  • Bayle and Hume
  • The pantheism controversy
  • Hegel
  • Nietzsche
  • Prospects of spinozistic rationalism.