From bondage to freedom : Spinoza on human excellence /

Building interconnected readings of Spinoza's accounts of imagination, error, and desire, Michael LeBuffe defends a comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's enlightened vision of human excellence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	LeBuffe, Michael
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:	Oxford scholarship online. Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module.
Subjects:	Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677. > Ethica. Ethica (Spinoza, Benedictus de) Ethics. Philosophical anthropology. Morale. Anthropologie philosophique. ethics (philosophy) philosophical anthropology. PHILOSOPHY > Social. PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy. Ethics Philosophical anthropology Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

God, human individuals, and human morality in the Ethics
Spinoza's explicit prescriptions and the imagination
Representation
Imagination and error
The striving to persevere in being and psychological egoism
The human mind as an adequate and as an inadequate cause
Consciousness and desire
Descriptions of the good
Formal theory of value
Spinoza's normative ethics
Spinoza's summum bonum
Eternity and the mind.