| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 341 pages). |
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| Series |
Routledge philosophers
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Routledge philosophers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Spinoza's understanding and understanding Spinoza -- Spinoza's understanding -- Understanding Spinoza -- The metaphysics of substance -- Descartes and substance -- Spinoza contra Descartes on substance -- Modes -- Necessitarianism -- The purpose of it all -- 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 -- Psychology : striving and self-preservation -- Conatus -- Desire, joy, and sadness -- Love, hate, and all that -- 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 -- The state, religion, and scripture -- Rights and power -- Religion and the state -- Scripture -- Prophecy and the truth of the Bible -- From PSR to eternity -- The aftermath of Spinoza -- Leibniz -- Bayle and Hume -- The pantheism controversy -- Hegel -- Nietzsche -- Prospects of spinozistic rationalism. |
| Summary |
A clear introduction to a daunting philosopher, Spinoza is the ideal starting point for anyone coming to his thought for the first time and essential reading for any student or scholar of the seventeenth century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
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Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. |
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Della Rocca, Michael. Spinoza. Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2008 (DLC) 2008000068 |
| ISBN |
9780203894583 (electronic book) |
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0203894588 (electronic book) |
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0415283299 (Cloth) |
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0415283302 (Paper) |
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0203894588 (Cloth) |
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9780415283298 |
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9780415283304 |
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