From bondage to freedom
Subtitle: Spinoza on human excellence
By: Michael LeBuffe.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780195383539
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677; Ethics; Philosophical anthropology
Description: Building interconnected readings of Spinoza's accounts of imagination, error, and desire, Michael LeBuffe defends a comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's enlightened vision of human excellence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: God, individuals, and human morality in the Ethics; title: Spinoza's explicit prescriptions and the imagination; title: Representation; title: Imagination and error; title: The striving to persevere in being; title: The human mind as an adequate and as an inadequate cause; title: Consciousness and desire; title: Descriptions of the good; title: Formal theory of value; title: Spinoza's normative ethics; title: Spinoza's summum bonum; title: Eternity and the mind.