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Spinoza: Reason, Religion, Politics: The relation between the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
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Abbreviations
Abbreviations of Spinoza Texts
Abbreviations for Descartes’s Writings
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART I: Two Intertwined Texts
1: Parallel Masterpieces: Intertextuality in Spinoza’s Ethics and Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
2. The Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus : Chronology
3. Texts, Context, Intertextuality: Instances
2: Continuity and Discontinuity between the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and the Ethics
2. Spiritus, Christus, and Spiritus Christi
3. Law and Obedience
3: Spinoza’s Ethics as a Theological-Political Treatise
1. The Theological-Political Question: The Dutch Context
2. Spinoza’s Theological-Political Project
3. Immortality as a Theological-Political Problem
4. Conclusion
PART II: God And Atheism
4: Prejudices, Common Notions, Intuitions: Knowledge of God between the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
2. Objectively and Subjectively Common Notions
3. Prejudices of Ordinary Language and the Cure by Common Notions
4. The Gestalt Switch: Most Simple Notions and the Intuition of God
5: Spinoza’s ‘Atheism’, the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
2. “Those Who Do Not Blush to Accuse Philosophers of Atheism”
3. Three Strategies for ‘Atheism’
4. The Evidence of the Ethics
4.1 Absolute Infinity
4.2 Awe of the Sublime
4.3 Eternity
4.4 The Nature of Nature
4.5 Proving the Existence of . . . Nature?
4.6 Order of Philosophizing
5. The Evidence of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
5.1 Knowing by Natural Light that God Exists
5.2 Knowledge and Love of God
5.3 The Tetragrammaton as Indicating God’s Essence
5.4 The Seven Principles of Faith
5.5 “I Am the Lord Your God.”
6. “The Rabbis”
7. Conclusion
Part III: Laws: Natural, Human, And Divine
6: Descartes and Spinoza on the Laws of Nature
1. Preliminaries
2. Descartes’s Scientific Project
2.1 Explaining All the Phenomena by Laws
2.2 The Eternal Truths as Divine Edicts
2.3 The Cosmology of Le monde and the Discours
2.4 The Idea of a Unified Science
3. Spinoza vs. Descartes
3.1 The Laws of Nature in the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione
3.2 Laws in the Korte Verhandeling
3.2.1 A Word about Truth
3.3.1 Laws of Nature in Ethics 1
3.3.2 Laws of Nature in Ethics 2
3.4 The Laws of Nature in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
3.5 The Laws of Nature in Ethics 3 and 4
3.6 Problems in the Letters
4. Concluding Theological Postscript
7: ‘Divine Law’ in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
1. Divine Law without Divine Lawgiver?
2. Divine Law as Rule of Life?
3. Divine Law and Politics?
4. Conclusion: No Divine Law at All?
8: Divine Law and the Right Way of Living: From the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus to the Ethics
1. Law in the TTP
2. Human Law in the TTP
3. Divine Law in the TTP
4. Human Law in the Ethics
4.1 Law Prescribed by Others
4.2 Law Prescribed to Oneself
4.3 Law as Determination by Reason
5. Divine Law in the Ethics
PART IV: Wonder, Final Causes, and Miracles
9: Is Wonder a Remedy against the Passions?: Spinoza’s Struggle with Descartes’s Legacy in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and in the Ethics
1. The Uses of Wonder from Descartes to Spinoza
2. Descartes on Wonder and Generosity
3. Wonder from the Korte verhandeling to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
4. Wonder and Generosity in the Ethics
5. Spinoza’s Changing Mind
10: Finalism, Religion, and Miracles: From the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus to the Ethics
1. Finalism and Miracles
2. The Origin of Religion
3. Finalism in the Ethics
4. Spinoza against Aristotle
5. A Technique of Refutation
Part V: Revelation, Reason, and Salvation
11: Spinoza’s Views on Prophecy and the Prophets Revisited
2. Definitional and Methodological Issues
3. Prophecy, Prophets, and the Imagination
4. Moral Certainty or On the Value of Prophets for Humans
5. Concluding Remarks
12: Philosophy and Theology, Reason and Revelation: The Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
2. Revelation
3. Salvation, Obedience, and Reason
4. Obedience, Faith, and Reason
5. The Dogmata of Universal Faith as Ideas of the Imagination
6. Conclusion: The Philosopher, the Theologian, and the Vulgus
13: Reason and Scripture in the Ethics and Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Jarig Jelles and Preface to the Nagelate schriften van B.D.S. (1677)
2. The Rationality of Christianity and the Collegiants
3. Rationality, Religion, and the TTP
4. The Consistency between the Ethics and Scripture
5. Christianity, Judaism, and the Relation between the Ethics and the TTP
6. Conclusion
14: Finding Oneself in God: Scientia Intuitiva as a Metaphysically Self-Locating Thought
1. Intuition A
1.1 Formal Essences and Formal Reality
1.2 What Can Be Intuited from the Formal Essence of God: God’s Effects Are Infinite Eternal Modes
1.3 Finite Enduring Things
1.4 What Can Be Intuited from the Formal Essence of God: All Modes Are Conceivable under Different Attributes
1.5 Preparing for Intuition
2. Intuition B
2.1 Ideas of Ideas, Knowing That One Knows
2.2 Reasoning without a Kind of Recognition
2.3 A Spinozistic Cogito
2.4 Scientia Intuitiva as Self-Locating Thought
3. Conclusion: Obedience, Reason, and Scientia Intuitiva
15: How to Make a Philosopher
2. Reading for Pedagogy
3. The Idea Dei and the Human Mind
4. From Common Notions to the Idea Dei
Part VI: Political Philosophy
1. Introduction
16: Will, Sovereignty, and the Self in the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
2. The Critique of Free Will
3. The Account in the TTP
4. The Quasi-Free Will in the Ethics
4.1 The Use of the Sovereign Analogy in the Ethics
5. Conclusion
References
17: Where Is the Collective Morality in Spinoza’s Ethics?: Connecting Spinoza’s Ethics to his Political Philosophy
1. Introduction: Linking the Ethics to the TTP
2. Positive versus Negative Liberty
3. Two Kinds of Men: Philosophers and the Masses
4. “Forced to Be Free”
5. Abolishing Religious Authority
6. The ‘General Will’
7. Democracy the Best Form of State
8. Spinoza and Radical Enlightenment ‘Modernity’
Bibliography
Index