Book

Jaspers, Karl, 1883-1969.

Spinoza. Edited by Hannah Arendt. Translated by Ralph Manheim.

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1974, ©1966]

vi, 121 pages 21 cm.

A Harvest book, HB 290

Harvest book ; HB290.

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Grossen Philosophen. Selections. English

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

Previously published as part of v. 2 of the author's The great philosophers, which is a translation of Die grossen Philosophen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-120).

1. Life and Works -- 2. Philosophy and Way of Life -- 3. The Metaphysical Vision -- a. Substance, attribute, mode -- b. God -- c. The two attributes -- d. The modes -- e. Time; necessity -- f. The Cleavage between God and the world and the question of their unity -- 4. Theory of Knowledge -- a. The stages of knowledge -- b. Ideas -- c. Relation to God -- d. Spinoza's geometrical method -- e. Mysticism, rationalism, speculative thought -- 5. Man -- a. Man is not substance but mode -- b. Human and divine thinking -- c. Man is mind and body -- d. Man and animal and the difference among men -- e. Immortality and eternity -- 6. Freedom from aims and Values -- a. Purposes and values are prejudices arising from perversion of the idea of God -- b. Our limited intelligence -- c. Reality and value -- d. The shift from one class of knowledge to another -- e. The ethos of freedom from values -- 7. Servitude and Freedom of Mind -- a. The theory of the affects -- b. Description of bondage -- c. The idea and possibility of freedom -- 8. Religion and the State -- Spinoza's Political Thinking -- B. Religion in the State -- C. Critical Characterization of Spinoza's Views of Religion and Politics -- 9. Critical Characterization of Spinoza’s Philosophy -- 10. Spinoza's Influence.

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