Doing without free will : Spinoza and contemporary moral problems /

Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems introduces Spinoza into the current discussion of the possibility of morality without free will, as it was he who first accomplished such a task. While his contemporaries reacted with shock to his determinist philosophy, today more peo...

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Other Authors: Goldenbaum, Ursula (Editor), Kluz, Christopher (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: doing without free will: Spinoza and contemporary moral problems / Ursula Goldenbaum and Christopher Kluz
  • 1. Moral responsibility without free will: Spinoza's social approach / Christopher Kluz
  • 2. Recovering Spinoza's theory of akrasia / Julia Haas
  • 3. Spinoza's evolutionary foundation of moral values and their objectivity: neither relativism nor absolutism / Ursula Goldenbaum
  • 4. Rehumanizing Spinoza's free man / Matthew Homan
  • 5. Freedom from resentment: Spinoza's way with the reactive attitudes / J. Thomas Cook.