Cover -- Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Spinoza and the Ethics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Spinoza in his time and ours -- The outsider -- How many 'Spinozas'? -- Reading Spinoza -- The text -- Chapter 2 God, minds and bodies -- God and 'his' attributes -- God and the world -- The mind and will of God -- The idea of the body -- Ways of knowing -- Chapter 3 From bondage to freedom -- The emotions -- Striving to persist: an ethic of joy -- The 'free man' -- Chapter 4 Intuitive knowledge and the intellectual love of God -- The eternity of the mind -- The self-knowledge of the 'blessed' -- Chapter 5 The way to wisdom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.