Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
In this chapter I shall present two problems which dominate Spinoza's metaphysics (sections 1-2), and then present his solution of one of them through his doctrine that there is only extended substance (sections 3-6). After a brief interlude looking at his views about necessity and time (sections 7-8), I then turn to Spinoza's treatment of the second problem, in his theory about how mentality fits into the universe (sections 9-14). Most of the references are to the Ethics Part 1 and the first few propositions of Part 2.
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