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The God of Spinoza:metaphysics and the good life
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In his major work the Ethics, Spinoza offers shrewd advice about how to lead a happier, more stable, and more meaningful life: How do you keep your head cool in times of stress? How to deal with destructive and unstable emotions? What ultimately is of value in life? What precisely is the nature of human happiness? Spinoza embeds his advice in a well-thought-out view about the nature of things, his metaphysics with which he opens the Ethics. We need, so Spinoza tells us, to have a clear understanding of metaphysics in order to fully grasp what the good life is. This book is about Spinozas metaphysical claim that God and nature are one and the same. It seeks to make the notoriously difficult opening pages of Spinozas Ethics accessible to the reader, and it offers a leaner and more easily understandable interpretation of Spinozas metaphysics. It does so by contrasting a strong and a weak version of "monism of substance", maintaining that only weak monism, or monism of nature, is duly argued for in Spinozas text. It is this notion of a whole of nature - which Spinoza may well have taken from the Stoics - that plays a seminal role in his wider philosophy. The study concludes that Spinozas idea of the good life is best read along Stoic lines.
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