Spinoza / Michael Della Rocca.

Author/creator Della Rocca, Michael
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Descriptionxii, 341 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRoutledge philosophers
Routledge philosophers. ^A601180
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [318]-332) and index.
LCCN 2008000068
ISBN9780415283298 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0415283299 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415283304 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0415283302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780203894583 (ebook)
ISBN0203894588 (ebook)

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Joyner General Stacks B3998 .D45 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold