Spinoza
By: Michael Della Rocca.
Series: Routledge philosophers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780415283298; 9780415283304; 9780203894583
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spinoza's understanding and understanding Spinoza; title: Spinoza's understanding; title: Understanding Spinoza; title: The metaphysics of substance; title: Descartes and substance; title: Spinoza contra Descartes on substance; title: Modes; title: Necessitarianism; title: The purpose of it all; title: The human mind; title: Parallelism and representation; title: Essence and representation; title: Parallelism and mind-body identity; title: The idea of the human body; title: The pancreas problem, the pan problem, and panpsychism; title: Nothing but representation; title: Representation, will, and belief; title: Skepticism; title: Psychology : striving and self-preservation; title: Conatus; title: Desire, joy, and sadness; title: Love, hate, and all that; title: The ethics of the ethics; title: The good notion of the good; title: The right notion of the right; title: Knowledge and morality; title: Freedom and morality; title: Helping others; title: Lies and degrees of freedom; title: The state, religion, and scripture; title: Rights and power; title: Religion and the state; title: Scripture; title: Prophecy and the truth of the Bible; title: From PSR to eternity; title: The aftermath of Spinoza; title: Leibniz; title: Bayle and Hume; title: The pantheism controversy; title: Hegel; title: Nietzsche; title: Prospects of spinozistic rationalism.