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Meaning in Spinoza's Method »

Authors: Aaron V. Garrett
ISBN-13: 9780521039505, ISBN-10: 0521039509
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Aaron V. Garrett

Aaron Garrett is Assistant Professor at Boston University. He has contributed to a number of publications and is the editor of Francis Hutcheson, An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections (2002) and Animal Rights and Souls in the Eighteenth Century (2000).

Book Synopsis

Garrett argues for the interconnection between Spinoza's method and the content of his philosophy.

	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
	Texts and editions
	Introduction	1
1	A worm in the blood: some central themes in Spinoza's Ethics	20
2	A few further basic concepts	50
3	Emendative therapy and the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione	73
4	Method: analysis and synthesis	97
5	Maimonides and Gersonides	123
6	Definitions in Spinoza's Ethics: where they come from and what they are for	144
7	The third kind of knowledge and "our" eternity	181
	Bibliography	224
	Index of passages referred to and cited	231
	General index	234