Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Spinoza's Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata -- Part I Ethics: De Deo -- Explaining Explanation and the Multiplicity of Attributes in Spinoza -- The One Substance and Finite Things (1p16-28) -- The Problem of Necessitarianism (1p28-36) -- Part II Ethics: De Natura Et Origine Mentis -- Spinoza and the Theory of Identity (2p1-13) -- The Definition of the Human Mind and the Numerical Difference between Subjects (2p11-2p13s) -- Spinoza's Physics (Lemmata Following 2p13) -- The Types of Knowledge (2p38-47) -- Part III Ethics: De Origine Et Natura Affectuum -- Conatus: A Pivotal Doctrine at the Center of the Ethics -- Imitation of the Affects and Interhuman Relations -- What Freedom Means -- Part IV Ethics: De Servitute Humana -- Human Non-Freedom and Disillusionment (4praef-4p18) -- Elementary Features of Spinoza's Political Philosophy (4p37s2) -- The Theory of the Good in Part 4 of the Ethics -- The Life of Free Persons Guided by Reason -- Part V Ethics: De Potentia Intellectus Seu De Libertate Humana -- Ethics as Medicine for the Mind (5p1-20) -- The Third Category of Knowledge and the Rational Love of God -- Remarks on the Immortality of the Soul in Spinoza -- Context and Reception -- Spinoza and the Idea of a Scientific Moral Philosophy -- The Pantheismusstreit-Milestone or Stumbling Block in the German Reception of Spinoza? -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index.