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Spinoza's Understanding And Understanding Spinoza -- Spinoza's Understanding -- Understanding Spinoza -- The Metaphysics Of Substance -- Descartes On Substance -- Spinoza Contra Descartes On Substance -- Modes -- Necessitarianism -- The Purpose Of It All -- The Human Mind -- Parallelism And Representation -- Essence And Representation -- Parallelism And Mind-body Identity -- The Idea Of The Human Body -- The Pancreas Problem, The Pan Problem, And Panpsychism -- Nothing But Representation -- Representation, Will, And Belief -- Skepticism -- Psychology: Striving And Self-preservation -- Conatus -- Desire, Joy, And Sadness -- Love, Hate, And All That -- The Ethics Of The Ethics -- The Good Notion Of The Good -- The Right Notion Of The Right -- Knowledge And Morality -- Freedom And Morality -- Helping Others -- Lies And Degrees Of Freedom -- The State, Religion, And Scripture -- Rights And Power -- Religion And The State -- Scripture -- Prophecy And The Truth Of The Bible -- From Psr To Eternity -- The Aftermath Of Spinoza -- Leibniz -- Bayle And Hume -- The Pantheism Controversy -- Hegel -- Nietzsche -- Prospects Of Spinozistic Rationalism. Michael Della Rocca. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [318]-332) And Index.