A Spinoza Reader:
The Ethics and Other Works
Edited and translated by Edwin Curley

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Introduction
I	Spinoza's Life and Philosophy
II	Bibliographical Note
III	Abbreviations and Other Conventions
	Preliminaries
I	A Portrait of the Philosopher as a Young Man	3
II	A Critique of Traditional Religion	6
III	Fragments of a Theory of Scientific Method	48
IV	From a Non-Geometric Draft of the Ethics	55
V	An Early Attempt at Geometrizing Philosophy	66
VI	Two Criticisms of Descartes	71
VII	The Study Group has Questions about Definitions	77
VIII	The Worm in the Blood	82
	The Ethics
I	Of God	85
II	Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind	115
III	Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects	152
IV	Of Human Bondage, or the Powers of the Affects	197
V	Of the Power of the Intellect, or on Human Freedom	244
	Objections and Replies
I	Tschirnhaus on Freedom	266
II	Freedom and Necessity	267
III	Tschirnhaus on Problems about the Attributes and Infinite Modes	269
IV	On Knowledge of Other Attributes and Examples of Infinite Modes	270
V	Tschirnhaus on Knowledge of Other Attributes	272
VI	Each Thing Is Expressed by Many Minds	272
VII	Tschirnhaus Presses His Objection	273
VIII	Spinoza Replies Again	273
IX	Tschirnhaus on Deducing the Existence of Bodies	274
X	On the Uselessness of Descartes' Principles of Natural Things	274
XI	Tschirnhaus Presses the Objection	274
XII	Spinoza's Last Reply	275
	Index	277

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