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Spinoza

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ISBN-10: 0415283302

ISBN-13: 9780415283304

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Della Rocca

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Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was one of towering philosophers of the Seventeenth century. Renowned for his metaphysics, he also made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. Beginning with an overview of Spinoza's life, Della Rocca carefully unpacks and explains Spinoza's philosophy: his metaphysics of substance and argument at the center of his whole system that God is the sole independent substance; Spinoza's account of the human mind and its relation to the body; his theory that human beings tend towards self-preservation and the role of the emotions; his most famous work, the Ethics, including the problem of…    
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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.54" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Editions Used and Abbreviations
Chronology
Spinoza's Understanding and Understanding Spinoza
Spinoza's Understanding
Understanding Spinoza
Summary
Further Reading
The Metaphysics of Substance
Descartes on Substance
Spinoza Contra Descartes on Substance
The Argument for Substance Monism
Modes
Necessitarianism
The Purpose of It All
Summary
Further Reading
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
Summary
Further Reading
Psychology: Striving and Self-preservation
Conatus
Desire, Joy, and Sadness
Love, Hate, and All That
Summary
Further Reading
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
Summary
Further Reading
The State, Religion, and Scripture
Rights and Power
Religion and the State
Scripture
Prophecy and the Truth of the Bible
Summary
Further Reading
From PSR to Eternity
Summary
Further Reading
The Atermath of Spinoza
Leibniz
Bayle and Hume
The Pantheism Controversy
Hegel
Nietzsche
Prospects of Spinozistic Rationalism
Summary
Further Reading
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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