The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza

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HALF-TITLE......Page 3
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TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
DEDICATION......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 9
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 13
METHOD OF CITATION......Page 14
Introduction......Page 17
NOTES......Page 28
1 Spinoza\'s life and works......Page 29
NOTES......Page 69
I. SOME UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS......Page 77
2. TWO PROBLEMS......Page 78
3. SUBSTANCE MONISM......Page 80
4. MONISM ABOUT EXTENDED SUBSTANCE......Page 82
5. FINITE BODIES AS MODES......Page 85
6. SOME TEXTUAL EVIDENCE......Page 87
7. SURROUNDING DETAILS......Page 89
8. NECESSITY AND CONTINGENCY......Page 90
9. TIME......Page 92
IO. THREE THESES, ESPECIALLY PARALLELISM......Page 94
11. THE MODE IDENTITY THESIS......Page 95
12. EXPLAINING PARALLELISM......Page 97
13. A CONJECTURE ABOUT TRANSATTRIBUTE MODES......Page 98
14. EXPLANATION AND CAUSATION......Page 99
15. WHAT IS AN ATTRIBUTE?......Page 101
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 105
2. ETHICS 2: BACKGROUND ASSUMPTIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FROM PART I......Page 108
3. ETHICS 2: INITIAL ORIENTATION......Page 110
4. THE IDEA OF GOD AND THE ORDER OF THINGS (E 2pp19)......Page 112
5. THE HUMAN MIND......Page 114
6. SENSE AND IMAGINATION (E 2pp10-18)......Page 116
7. THE HUMAN MIND\'S INADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE OF ITSELF, ITS BODY, AND EXTERNAL BODIES (E 2PP19-31)......Page 120
8. TRUTH, ADEQUACY, AND FALSITY (E 2pp32~36)......Page 123
9. IDEAS WHICH ARE ADEQUATE IN US (E 2pp 34, 37-40)......Page 127
IO. THE KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE (E 2p40S2-2p42)......Page 132
11. TRUTH AND CERTAINTY (E 2p43; TdlE)......Page 135
12. KNOWLEDGE UNDER THE ASPECT OF ETERNITY (E 2PP44-47)......Page 137
13. WILL, IDEAS, AND JUDGMENT (E 2pp48-49)......Page 139
14. SCIENTIA INTUITIVA, INTELLECTUAL LOVE OF GOD, AND ETERNITY OF MIND......Page 142
I 5. CONCLUSION......Page 147
NOTES......Page 149
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 158
2. THE DISCIPLINARY BACKGROUND......Page 159
3. NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CORRESPONDENCE......Page 164
4. SPINOZA THE AUTHOR OF THE TWO REECKENING?......Page 168
5. SPINOZAN PHYSICS AND CARTESIAN PHYSICS......Page 171
6. SCIENTIFIC METHOD......Page 186
7. NATURA VEXATA (SIVE DEUS VEXATUS)?......Page 196
NOTES......Page 198
5 Spinoza\'s metaphysical psychology......Page 208
I. THE METAPHYSICAL ACCOUNT: STRIVING, SELF-PRESERVATION, AND POWER OF ACTING......Page 209
The meaning of 3p6......Page 210
Is 3p6 truel?......Page 216
The argument for 3p6......Page 218
The truth in 3p6......Page 222
3p6 and power of acting......Page 226
Desire......Page 231
Joy and sadness......Page 235
Prudence and the primacy of the immediate......Page 239
Altruism and the primacy of the self......Page 246
3. THE LAW-GOVERNEDNESS OF THE MENTAL REALM......Page 252
Irrational action......Page 253
Principles of affect constitution and transition......Page 258
Human teleology......Page 268
NOTES......Page 273
6 Spinoza\'s ethical theory......Page 283
I. AN OUTLINE OF SPINOZA\'S ETHICAL THEORY......Page 285
The natural foundations of ethical theory......Page 286
Definitions of ethical terms......Page 288
Bondage and its causes......Page 290
The prescriptions of reason......Page 291
The way to freedom......Page 295
Intellectual love of God and blessedness......Page 298
The meaning of ethical language......Page 301
The nature of the good......Page 306
The practicality of reason......Page 311
The role of virtue......Page 313
The requirements for freedom and moral responsibility......Page 314
The possibility and moral significance of altruism......Page 318
Spinoza and his predecessors......Page 321
Spinoza and his contemporaries......Page 322
Spinoza and his successors......Page 323
NOTES......Page 324
I. SPINOZA AS AN ECCENTRIC HOBBESIAN......Page 331
2. THE COEXTENSIVENESS OF RIGHT AND POWER......Page 334
3. SPINOZA AS A SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORIST......Page 338
4. SPINOZA AS A MACHIAVELLIAN......Page 343
5. CONCLUSION......Page 349
NOTES......Page 351
8 Spinoza\'s theology......Page 359
I. NATURAL THEOLOGY......Page 361
2. REVELATION, IMAGINATION, AND UNIVERSAL RELIGIOUS FAITH......Page 373
3. PRACTICAL THEOLOGY......Page 390
NOTES......Page 395
9 Spinoza and Bible scholarship......Page 399
NOTES......Page 420
I. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY......Page 424
The critique of the Theological-Political Treatise......Page 425
The unity of substance......Page 426
The Spinozist circles......Page 427
Pantheism and Cabbalism......Page 429
The Underground Militant Literature......Page 430
Neo-Spinozism......Page 433
The pantheism conflict (\"Pantheismusstreit\")......Page 435
German idealism......Page 437
Eclecticism and positivism in France......Page 438
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche......Page 439
Literary readings......Page 442
German scholarship......Page 443
The echoes of Spinozism......Page 444
Literature......Page 445
NOTES......Page 446
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 451
INDEX......Page 475