Spinoza on Reason and the "Free Man"

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Edited by Yirmiyahu Yovel

Fordham University Press

Due/Published July 2004, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 0967710235

This volume in the Spinoza by 2000 series contains papers from leading scholars on Book IV of the Ethics, including Garber, Della Roca, Brinker, Bove, and Yovell. In this volume, Spinoza's understanding of the relation between reason and passion and the nature of human perfectibility are explored in depth, as is Spinoza's place within the history of philosophy and his relation to other components of early modern thought.