Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. First Part
6. Chapter 1. Adequate Ideas Are Infinite Modes 21
7. Chapter 2. Our Knowledge of God and Its Place in Ethics 51
8. Chapter 3. Spinoza’s Will to Power: How Does the Conatus Become a Desire to Increase Power? 77
9. Second Part
10. Introduction 137
11. Chapter 5. Conflicts among Emotions, among Ideas, and among People 141
12. Chapter 6. Hilarity and the Goods of Mind and Body 163
13. Chapter 7. The Strength of the Emotions and the Power of the Intellect 195
14. Chapter 8. Ethics and the Ethics: How Does Reason Become Practical? 229
15. Notes 257
16. Index of Names 299
17. Index of Passages in Spinoza’s Works 303