Ethica IV
Subtitle: Spinoza on reason and the "Free Man" (Ethica IV) : papers presented at the Fourth Jerusalem Conference
By: edited by Yirmiyahu Yovel and Gideon Segal.
Contributors: Yovel, Yirmiahu.; Segal, Gideon.
Series: Spinoza by 2000
Publisher: Little Room Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677 -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Spinoza on reason and the "Free Man"
Description: "The fourth volume in the Spinoza by 2000 series presents the reader with issues central to Part IV of Spinoza's Ethics. Readers of this text face one of the most difficult questions in Spinoza scholarship: Is Spinoza presenting a rational ethics, capable of making human beings free, or is he merely drawing an ethical ideal, never to be reached within the confines of reason alone? Indeed, 'freedom' is meant here mainly in the context of human bondage to the affects, but it is also addressed in connection with human sociability. Whether rational self-understanding is, in itself, sufficient for human emancipation is an open question. the participants of this volume help to clarify the various aspects of the problem, providing an indispensable guide both for Spinoza scholars and the general reader. This collection also links the previous volume in this series, on Spinoza's psychological theory, to the forthcoming volume, which concentrates on the culminating last part of the Ethics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Recta ratio / Bernard Rousset; title: Incomplete rationality in Spinoza's Ethics: three basic forms / Yirmiyahu Yovel; title: Ethics IV: the ladder, no the top: the provisional morals of the philosopher / Herman De Dijn; title: 'Strange science of paradoxical desires ... ': De Dijn on Ethics IV / J. Thomas Cook; title: Is the rational man free? / Elhanan Yakira; title: Time, rationality, and intuitive knowledge / Gideon Segal; title: Spinoza and the motives of right action: some remarks on Spinoza's Ethics IV / Timothy L.S. Sprigge; title: Egoism and the imitation of affects in Spinoza / Michael Della Rocca; title: The affects as a condition of human freedom in Spinoza's Ethics / Ursula Goldenbaum; title: Spinoza on human desire and the impossibility of utopia / Menachem Brinker; title: Dr. Fischelson's dilemma: Spinoza on freedom and sociability / Daniel Garber; title: Hilaritas and Acquiescentia in se ipso / Laurent Bove; title: Spinoza and Freud: an old myth revisited / Cornelis de Deugd.