Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

List of Contributors

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Abbreviations

pp.：  11 – 12

Preface

pp.：  13 – 14

Introduction: Spinoza’s Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata

pp.：  15 – 28

Part I Ethics: De Deo

pp.：  29 – 92

Explaining Explanation and the Multiplicity of Attributes in Spinoza

pp.：  31 – 50

The One Substance and Finite Things (1p16–28)

pp.：  51 – 70

The Problem of Necessitarianism (1p28–36)

pp.：  71 – 92

Part II Ethics: De Natura Et Origine Mentis

pp.：  93 – 160

Spinoza and the Theory of Identity (2p1–13)

pp.：  95 – 112

The Definition of the Human Mind and the Numerical Difference between Subjects (2p11–2p13s)

pp.：  113 – 132

Spinoza’s Physics (Lemmata Following 2p13)

pp.：  133 – 142

The Types of Knowledge (2p38–47)

pp.：  143 – 160

Part III Ethics: De Origine Et Natura Affectuum

pp.：  161 – 204

Conatus: A Pivotal Doctrine at the Center of the Ethics

pp.：  163 – 180

Imitation of the Affects and Interhuman Relations

pp.：  181 – 192

What Freedom Means

pp.：  193 – 204

Part IV Ethics: De Servitute Humana

pp.：  205 – 276

Human Non-Freedom and Disillusionment (4praef–4p18)

pp.：  207 – 224

Elementary Features of Spinoza’s Political Philosophy (4p37s2)

pp.：  225 – 246

The Theory of the Good in Part 4 of the Ethics

pp.：  247 – 260

The Life of Free Persons Guided by Reason

pp.：  261 – 276

Part V Ethics: De Potentia Intellectus Seu De Libertate Humana

pp.：  277 – 318

Ethics as Medicine for the Mind (5p1–20)

pp.：  279 – 294

The Third Category of Knowledge and the Rational Love of God

pp.：  295 – 308

Remarks on the Immortality of the Soul in Spinoza

pp.：  309 – 318

Context and Reception

pp.：  319 – 364

Spinoza and the Idea of a Scientific Moral Philosophy

pp.：  321 – 338

The Pantheismusstreit—Milestone or Stumbling Block in the German Reception of Spinoza?

pp.：  339 – 364

Bibliography

pp.：  365 – 382

Subject Index

pp.：  383 – 391

Name Index

pp.：  392 – 394