Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • First part. Adequate ideas are infinite modes
  • Our knowledge of God and its place in ethics
  • Spinoza's will to power: how does the conatus become a desire to increase power?
  • False pleasures and romantic love
  • Second part. Conflicts among emotions, among ideas, and among people
  • Hilarity and the goods of mind and body
  • The strength of the emotions and the power of the intellect
  • Ethics and The Ethics: how does reason become practical?.