A Study of Spinoza's 'Ethics' |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Abbreviations | 3 |
A CHARACTER SKETCH OF THE ETHICS | 7 |
Why is it called Ethics? | 9 |
How parts 1 and 2 fit in | 13 |
Demonstrated in geometrical order | 16 |
The hypotheticodeductive method | 20 |
What are the data? | 23 |
Ideas of ideas | 184 |
TIME | 193 |
Number and measure | 196 |
Tempus and duration | 202 |
Eternity | 204 |
The reality of change | 207 |
GOALS 3 | 213 |
The denial of all purpose | 215 |
The invalidity of the demonstrations | 25 |
THE CAST OF SPINOZAS MIND | 29 |
theism | 32 |
naturalism about mankind | 35 |
conceptual minimalism | 38 |
What is dualism? | 41 |
dualism | 47 |
Psychology and logic | 50 |
THE ONE SUBSTANCE DOCTRINE 1 | 55 |
Attributes in Spinoza | 60 |
No shared attribute | 66 |
the official argument | 70 |
Are there more than two attributes? | 75 |
EXTENDED SUBSTANCE 1 | 81 |
Why space has no parts | 85 |
Space as substance | 88 |
Bodies as modes | 92 |
Where does Spinoza say that space is substance? | 97 |
What good is the field metaphysic? | 103 |
Motion and rest | 106 |
NECESSITY 1 | 111 |
The commitment to ruling out contingent truths | 114 |
What does Spinoza think about contingency? | 119 |
THINKING SUBSTANCE 2 | 125 |
Parallelism | 127 |
A better case for parallelism | 131 |
Panpsychism | 135 |
Spinozas explanation of the parallelism | 139 |
A threat to dualism? | 143 |
The order of explanations | 149 |
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 2 | 153 |
Deciding what to believe | 159 |
Ideas as beliefs | 162 |
Error | 167 |
Error ignorance and truthvalues | 171 |
Inadequate ideas | 175 |
Reason the senses and error | 182 |
Spinozas substitute for purpose | 221 |
A theory of teleology | 226 |
SELFPRESERVATION 3 | 231 |
The impossibility of selfdestruction | 234 |
Suicide | 237 |
Deriving the selfpreservation doctrine | 240 |
Other arguments for egoism | 246 |
AFFECTS 3 and 4 | 253 |
Desire as an affect | 258 |
Spinozas list of affects | 262 |
Spinozas account of emotions | 267 |
Emotion and belief | 271 |
Some theory about how emotions work | 276 |
Strength of emotions | 282 |
Cognition of good and bad | 284 |
VALUE 4 | 289 |
Spinozas revisions of value concepts | 292 |
The case for community of interest | 299 |
The guidance of reason | 307 |
Bodily versatility | 310 |
FREEDOM 4 | 315 |
The psychology of the free man | 317 |
its incoherence | 324 |
PSYCHOTHERAPY 5 | 329 |
separating and joining | 333 |
turning passions into actions | 335 |
reflecting on determinism | 337 |
Reactive attitudes in the Ethics | 342 |
Love towards God | 345 |
Hampshires Spinoza | 347 |
THE LAST THREE DOCTRINES 5 | 357 |
Intuitive knowledge | 364 |
The intellectual love of God | 369 |
A judgment on the last three doctrines | 372 |
Bibliography | 377 |
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Common terms and phrases
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