Maurice Mandelbaum and Eugene Freeman NUNC COCNOSCO EX PARTE THOMAS J. BATA LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY Spinoza 1 Essays In Interpretation Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/spinozaessaysiniOOOOfree Spinoza 1 Essays In Interpretation Edited by Eugene Freeman and Maurice Mandelbaum Open Court LaSalle, Illinois ■ r / H O SPINOZA: ESSAYS IN INTERPRETATION Copyright ® 1975 by Open Court Publishing Co. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Open Court Publishing Co., Box 599, La Salle, Illinois 61301. Printed in the United States of America. The essays by G. H. R. Parkinson, Stuart Hampshire, Wallace I. Matson, Douglas Odegard, Robert J. McShea, Willis Doney, Warren Kessler, Lee C. Rice, Ruth Saw, and Errol E. Harris were first published in The Monist, Volume 55, Number 4 ® 1971, The Open Court Publishing Co., La Salle, Illinois Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Freeman, Eugene, 1906- comp. Spinoza: essays in interpretation. (Monist library of philosophy) Bibliography: p. 1. Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Mandelbaum, Maurice H., 1908- joint comp. B3998.F7 1974 199'.492 72-84079 ISBN 0-87548-079-9 ISBN 0-87548-196-5 (pbk.) Contents Preface by Maurice Mandelbaum 3 Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, and Politics G. H. R. Parkinson Spinoza on the Power and Freedom of Man (l) Stuart Hampshire Spinoza’s Theory of Human Freedom 135) Wallace I. Matson Spinoza’s Theory of Mind Douglas Odegard The Body Identical with the Human Mind: A Problem in Spinoza’s Philosophy 61 William K. Frankena Spinoza’s “New Morality”: Notes on Book IV 85 Robert J. McShea Spinoza: Human Nature and History 101 William Sacksteder Spinoza on Democracy 117 Epistemological and Metaphysical Issues Willis Doney Spinoza on Philosophical Skepticism 139 E. M. Curley Descartes, Spinoza and the Ethics of Belief 159 Warren Kessler A Note on Spinoza’s Concept of Attribute 191 VI Contents Lee C. Rice , Spinoza on Individuation (195j v' Frederick C. Copleston Spinoza as Metaphysician 215 Ruth Saw The Task of Metaphysics for Spinoza 235 Errol E. Harris Spinoza’s Theory of Human Immortality 245 Bibliojfraphy (Compiled by E. M. Curley) 263 Index (Arranged by William Sacksteder) 317 Index of Authors 317 Index of Topics 319 Spinoza 1 Essays In Interpretation