Spinoza`s Understanding and Understanding Spinoza One 1. Spinoza`s Understanding 2. Understanding Spinoza The Metaphysics of Substance Two 1. Descartes on Substance 2. Spinoza Contra Descartes on Substance 3. The Argument for Substance Monism 4. Modes 5. Necessitarianism 6. The Purpose of It All The Human Mind Three 1. Parallelism and Representation 2. Essence and Representation 3. Parallelism and Mind-Body Identity 4. The Idea of the Human Body 5. The Pancreas Problem, the Pan Problem, and Panpsychism 6. Nothing but Representation 7. Representation, Will, and Belief Psychology: Striving and Self-preservation Four 1. Conatus 2. Desire, Joy, and Sadness 3. Love, Hate, and All That The Ethics of the Ethics Five 1. The Good Notion of the Good 2. The Right Notion of the Right 3. Knowledge and Morality 4. Freedom and Morality 5. Helping Others 6. Lies and Degrees of Freedom The State, Religion, and Scripture Six 1. Rights and Power 2. Religion and the State 3. Scripture 4. Prophecy and the Truth of the Bible