Spinoza on Learning to Live Together 1st edition by Susan James ISBN 019260886X 9780192608864

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ISBN 10:      019260886X
ISBN 13: 978-0192608864
Author:    Susan James  

 Philosophising, as Spinoza conceives it, is the project of learning to live joyfully. Yet this is also a matter of learning to live together, and the surest manifestation of philosophical insight is the capacity to sustain a harmonious way of life. Here, Susan James defends this overall interpretation of Spinoza’s philosophy and explores its bearing on contemporary philosophical debates around issues such as religious toleration, putting our knowledge to work, and the environmental crisis.

Part I focuses on Spinoza’s epistemology. Philosophical understanding empowers us by giving us access to truths about ourselves and the world, and by motivating us to act on them. It gives us reasons for living together and enhances our ability to live co-operatively. Part II takes up Spinoza’s claim that, to cultivate this kind of understanding, we need to live together in political communities. It explores his analysis of how states can develop a co-operative ethos. Finally, living joyfully compels us to look beyond the state to our relationship with the rest of nature. James concludes with discussions of some of the virtues this requires.

Spinoza on Learning to Live Together 1st Table of contents:

Part I. Learning to Live Together

1. Creating Rational Understanding: Spinoza as a Social Epistemologist

2. When does Truth Matter? The Relation between Theology and Philosophy

3. Spinoza on Superstition Coming to Terms with Fear

4. Narrative as the Means to Freedom: Spinoza on the Uses of Imagination

5. Responding Emotionally to Fiction: A Spinozist Approach

Part II. The Politics of Living Together

6. Law and Sovereignty in Spinoza’s Politics

7. Natural Rights as Powers to Act

8. Democracy and the Good Life in Spinoza’s Philosophy

9. Freedom, Slavery, and the Passions

10. Freedom of Conscience and Civic Peace: Spinoza on Piety

Part III. Philosophical Communities

11. Freedom and Nature: A Spinozist Invitation

12. The Affective Cost of Philosophical Self-Transformation

13. Fortitude: Living in the Light of Our Knowledge

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