1st Edition
Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza’s "Ethics"
1. Introduction
Noa Naaman-Zauderer
2. Steps toward Eleaticism in Spinoza’s Philosophy of Action
Michael Della Rocca
3. Spinoza’s Activities: Freedom without Independence
Matthew J. Kisner
4. Descartes and Spinoza on the Primitive Passions: Why So Different?
Lisa Shapiro
5. Spinoza on the Primary Affects
John Carriero
6. Affectivity and Cognitive Perfection
Lilli Alanen
7. Deciding What to Do: The Relation of Affect and Reason in Spinoza’s
Ethics Donald Rutherford
8. Materializing Spinoza’s Account of Human Freedom
Julie R. Klein
9. Spinoza’s Values: Joy, Desire, and Good in the Ethics
Steven Nadler
10. Spinoza on Human Freedoms and the Eternity of the Mind
Noa Naaman-Zauderer
11. The Enigma of Spinoza’s Amor Dei Intellectualis
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Biography
Noa Naaman-Zauderer is Tenured Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Descartes: The Loneliness of a Philosopher (2007), of Descartes’ Deontological Turn: Reason, Will, and Virtue in the Later Writings (2010; paperback 2013), and of articles and book chapters on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.
"The contributors are established participants in contemporary debates, and the volume showcases the development and enrichment of their illuminating perspectives. The collection is an excellent addition to the growing body of Anglophone literature on the moral psychology and ethical theory of the Ethics." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
