A companion to Spinoza / edited by Yitzhak Melamed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I Life and Background
Chapter 1 Spinoza's Life
1. Family
2. The Amsterdam Years (1632-ca. 1660)
3. Spinoza in Rijnsburg (ca. 1660/61-April 1663)
4. Spinoza in Voorburg (April 1663-Winter 1669/70)
5. Spinoza in The Hague (1669/70-1677)
6. Final Years (1675-1677)
References
Further Reading
Chapter 2 Spinoza's Philology
1. Introduction
2. Historical Background
3. Spinoza's Works
4. The Development of Spinoza Philology in Outline
References
Chapter 3 Avicenna and Spinoza on Essence and Existence
1. From Avicenna to Spinoza
2. Essence: The 'Definition'
3. Essence and Existence: The Distinction
4. God's Essence is Existence
5. Essentially Different?
6. Conclusion
References1
Chapter 4 Spinoza and Maimonides on True Religion
1. Definition of Religion
2. The Natural Divine Law and the Summum Bonum
3. Two Maimonidean Examples of Divine Commandments
4. King Solomon on Wisdom or Scientia
5. Why Does a Book on Ethics Begin with Deus?
6. Conclusion
References
Chapter 5 Spinoza and Scholastic Philosophy
1. The CM as an Intervention in Scholastic Debates
2. The Inseparability of God's Will and God's Intellect
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 6 Spinoza and Descartes
1. Rewriting Descartes: The Principles of Philosophy
2. Going beyond Descartes: Method and Metaphysics
3. Transforming Descartes: The Subject of Ethics
4. In the Wake of Descartes: The libertas philosophandi
Notes
References
Further Readings
Chapter 7 Spinoza's Dutch Philosophical Background
1. Leiden Scholasticism
2. Dutch Cartesianism
References
Further Reading
Chapter 8 Spinoza and Hobbes
1. Desire and Causation. 2. Emotions and Human Nature
3. Value and the State
4. Conclusion
References
Part II Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
Chapter 9 Spinoza's Monistic Metaphysics of Substance and Mode
1. The Meaning of the Two Theses
2. Arguments for the Two Theses
3. Spinoza's Uses of the Two Theses
4. Contemporary Applications of the Two Theses
References
Chapter 10 Spinoza and Eternity
Acknowledgment
Chapter 11 Spinoza on Causa Sui
1. Causa sui in Descartes
2. Spinoza's Causa (efficiens) sui
3. Defending Causa (efficiens) sui
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 12 Spinoza's Physical Picture
References
Chapter 13 Spinoza's Mereology
1. Modal Parts and Substantial Indivisibility
2. Spatial Quantity and Divisibility
3. Mereology in the Oldenburg Letter
References
Chapter 14 Spinoza's Metaphysics of Time
1. Eternity
2. Duration
3. Time
4. Eternity and geometrical construction
5. The Mind-Eternity Paradox
6. Three Perspectives
7. The Time-Eternity Barrier
8. Nested Perspectives
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 15 Spinoza's Infinities
1. Introduction
2. Infinity as Perfection
3. Infinity as Negative Quality
4. Infinity as Positive Quality
5. Infinity as Universal Quantification
6. Summary and Open Questions
Acknowledgments
References
Further Reading
Chapter 16 Spinoza on Diachronic Identity
1. The Leibnizian Challenge
2. Material Things and Their Identity
3. Mental Things and Their Identity
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 17 Spinoza on Relations
1. Introduction
2. Relations as Beings of Reason
3. Relations vs. Universals
4. Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 18 Spinoza on Numerical Identity and Time
1. Introduction
2. A Puzzle. 3. Identity and Discernibility
4. Indiscernibility of Identicals
5. Conclusion
References
Chapter 19 Spinoza on Universals
1. Spinoza's Realism
2. Spinoza's Nominalism
3. Good and Bad Universals
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 20 Spinoza's Ontology of Power
1. E1p9: "The More Reality or Being Each Thing Has, The More Attributes Belong to It"
2. E1p10: "Every Attribute of a Substance Must be Conceived Through Itself"
3. E1p11s: Existence as the Power to Cause, or Produce Effects
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 21 Spinoza's Modal Theory
1. God-substance
2. Intelligible Necessity
3. Textual Evidence for a Non-necessitarianist Reading
4. Necessity of Reflective Acts
References
Further Reading
Chapter 22 Spinoza on Determination
1. Introduction
3. Conclusion
References
Chapter 23 Spinoza's Physics
1. Introduction
2. Extended Substance
3. Causation and Attribute-Neutrality
4. The Power of God and the Power of Bodies
5. Quantum In Se Est
6. Essences
7. Universality
8. Conclusion
References
Part III Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Psychology
Chapter 24 Spinoza on Human and Divine Knowledge
1. Introduction: The Status of Human Knowledge
2. Epistemic Subjectivity and the Human Standpoint
3. Human Cognition at Work
4. God's Intellect
References
Chapter 25 Reflective Knowledge
1. Introduction
2. What Is an Idea of an Idea?
3. Knowing that One Knows
4. Knowing That One Knows
5. Reasoning to Metaphysical Foundations
6. Intuiting Metaphysical Foundations
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 26 Spinoza Against the Skeptics
1. The Kinds of Skeptics Envisaged by Spinoza
2. The Common Core of Spinoza's Responses to the Skeptics
3. Spinoza's Epistemic Confidence. 4. Conclusion: The Anti-/Skeptical Character of Spinoza's Philosophy
Acknowledgments
References
Further Reading
Chapter 27 Spinoza on Ideas of Affections
Introduction
1. Sensation in TIE, KV, and CM
2. Ideas of Affections: Sensation or Imagination?
3. Conclusion
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 28 The Mind-Body Union
1. The Nature of Mind and Body Union
2. The Equality between Body and Mind
References
Chapter 29 Spinoza's Non-Theory of Non-Consciousness
1. "Conscious" and "Consciousness" in the Ethics
2. Consciousness Examined: Theories of Consciousness in Spinoza
3. Returning to The Texts
4. Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 30 Spinoza on the Passions and the Self
1. Deconstructing the Self
2. The Affective Field
3. Beyond Self and Other
References
Chapter 31 The Serpent and the Dove: Spinoza's Two Paths to Enlightenment
1. Beginning the Path
2. Follow the Yellow Brick Road
3. The Serpent
4. The Dove
References
Part IV Ethics, Politics, and Religion
Chapter 32 Spinoza's Moral Philosophy
1. Good and Bad
2. Motivation
3. Virtue
4. Happiness
5. Doing Unto Others
References
Chapter 33 Spinoza on the Constitution of Animal Species
1. The Limits of Individual Natures
2. A First Argument: Commonality and Agreement
3. A Second Argument: The Right of Nature
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 34 Essence, Virtue and the State
1. Essence and Knowledge
2. Freedom and Unity
3. Conclusion
References
Chapter 35 Law and Dissolution of Law in Spinoza
References
Chapter 36 Spinoza's Notion of Freedom
1. Imagination as a Power
2. Imagination, Emulation, and the Free Man
References
Chapter 37 Spinoza's "Republican Idea of Freedom"
1. Introduction. 2. Spinoza's Republican Critique of Hobbesian Sovereignty
3. Criticisms of the Republican Idea of Freedom
4. Spinoza's Response to His Critics
5. Conclusion
References
Chapter 38 Spinoza and Economics
1. Introduction
2. Spinoza and the Political Problem of Luxury
3. Spinoza's Mechanism Design
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 39 Spinoza and Feminism
1. Spinoza's Anti-Individualism
2. The Conatus Doctrine
3. Anti-dualism
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 40 Spinoza and International Law
1. Introduction
2. Lauterpacht's Arguments Against Spinoza's Political Theory as a Robust Basis of International Law
3. Spinoza's Statements on International Relations in Light of the Ethical Project
4. Concluding Remarks: Towards a Spinozistic Foundation of International Law
References
Chapter 41 The Intellectual Love of God
References
Chapter 42 Spinoza and Scripture
1. The Paradox of a Work Saturated with Scriptural References
2. Why Interpret the Bible?
3. The Method and Its Results
4. Evaluation
Bibliography
Part V Aesthetics and Language
Chapter 43 Spinoza's Aesthetics
1. Introduction
2. Anti-Realist Interpretations
3. Realist Interpretations
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 44 Following Traces in the Sand: Spinoza on Semiotics
1. Ontological Premises
2. The Semiosis of Imagination
3. Facies Totius Universi
References
Chapter 45 Spinoza and the Grammar of the Hebrew Language
1. Sources
2. Structure and Contents of the Work
3. Philosophical Import of the CGH
References
Part VI Spinoza's Reception
Chapter 46 Leibniz and Spinoza on Plenitude and Necessity
1. Introduction
2. From Spinoza's Attributes to Leibnizian Possible Worlds

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