Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or
occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes
him one of the great seventeenth-century exemplars of both
philosophical naturalism and explanatory rationalism. Nature and
Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy brings together for the first
time eighteen of Don Garrett's articles on Spinoza's philosophy,
ranging over the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of
mind, ethics, and political philosophy. Taken together, these
influential articles provide a comprehensive interpretation of that
philosophy, including Spinoza's theories of substance, thought and
extension, causation, truth, knowledge, individuation,
representation, consciousness, conatus, teleology, emotion,
freedom, responsibility, virtue, contract, the state, and
eternity-and the deep interrelations among them. Each article aims
to resolve significant problems in the understanding of Spinoza's
philosophy in such a way as to make evident both his reasons for
his views and the enduring value of his ideas. At the same time,
Garrett's articles elucidate the relations between his philosophy
and those of predecessors and contemporaries like Aristotle,
Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz. Lastly, the volume offers
important and substantial replies to leading critics on four
crucial topics: the necessary existence of God (Nature), substance
monism, necessitarianism, and consciousness.
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