PHIL424/JWST419P

I/31 Life, Works and Contexts

 

Primary Sources (=PS): Descartes, Principles of Philosophy , Book One.

Secondary Sources (=SS): PDF W. N. A. Klever “Spinoza's Life and Works”, Cambridge Companion, pp. 13-60

 

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2/7 Substance, Attribute and Mode

PS: Ethics 1P1-20

SS: Bennett, 55-75, PDF Hallett, “Substance and Its Modes”

 

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2/14 God or Nature

 

PS: Ethics 1P11-1.Appendix)

SS: Bennett, 81-24

 

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2/21 Body and Mind

PS: Ethics 2P1-P34

Bennett, 125-149. PDF Della Rocca, “Causation and Spinoza's Claim of Identity”, History of Philosophy Quarterly 8 (1991), pp. 265-76.

 

2/28 Knowledge, Truth, and Error

 

PS: Ethics 2P32-2P152.

SS: Bennett, 153-185, PDF Margaret Wilson, “Spinoza's Theory of Knowledge” ( CC , pp. 89-142)

Ethics 2P1-P34

 

 

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3/7 The Psychology of Emotion

 

PS: Ethics 3.

SS: Bennett, 253-281, PDF Michael Della Rocca, "Spinoza's Metaphysical Psychology"

 

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3/14 Morality and the Strength of the Emotions

PS: Ethics 4.

SS: Bennett, 282-314. PDF Don Garrett, "Spinoza's Ethical Theory"

 

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3/28 Human Understanding and Freedom

 

PS: Ethics 5P1-10

SS: Bennett, 315-328. PDF Stuart Hampshire, "Spinoza and the Idea of Freedom."

 

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4/4 Love of God, Blessedness, and immortality

PS: Ethics 5P11-End.

SS: Bennett, 345-376. PDF Dianne Steinberg, "Spinoza' Theory of the Eternity of the Mind."

 

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4/11 Prophecy

 

PS: T-P Treatise , pp. 1-56.

SS: PDF Michael A. Rosenthal, “Why Spinoza Chose the Hebrews: The Exemplary Function of Prophecy in the Theological-Political Treatise .

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4/18 Philosophy of Law, Miracles

 

PS: T-P Treatise , pp. 57-92

SS: PDF G. Hunter, "Spinoza on Miracles"

 

 

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4/25 Biblical Criticism

 

PS: T-P Treatise , pp. 98-164.

SS: PDF Richard H. Popkin, “Spinoza and Bible scholarship” ( CC : 383-407)

 

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5/2 Faith and Reason

 

PS: T-P Treatise , pp. 165-200.

SS: PDF E. Curley, “Notes on a Neglected Masterpiece (II): The Theological-Political Treatise as a Prolegomonenon to the Ethics.”

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5/9 Political Philosophy

PS: T-P Treatise , pp. 200-End

SS: PDF Curley, “Kissinger, Spinoza, and Genghis Khan” ( CC : pp. 315-43).

 

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