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pt. 1. Context and movements -- pt. 2. Metaphysics and understanding -- pt. 3. Mind, soul, and perception -- pt. 4. Morals and aesthetics -- pt. 5. Politics and society -- pt. 6. Philosophy in relation to the arts and sciences -- pt. 7. Major figures.

This original and controversial book examines the geometrical method employed by Spinoza in his masterpiece the Ethics, and suggests that its purpose, in Spinoza's view, was not just to present claims and propositions but also to allow the readers to look at themselves and the world in a different way

Readers of Spinoza's philosophy have often been daunted, and sometimes been enchanted, by the geometrical method which he employs in his philosophical masterpiece the Ethics. In Meaning in Spinoza's Method Aaron Garrett examines this method and suggests that its purpose, in Spinoza's view, was not just to present claims and propositions but also in some sense to change the readers and allow them to look at themselves and the world in a different way. His discussion draws not only on Spinoza's works but also on those of the philosophers who influenced Spinoza most strongly, including Hobbes, Descartes, Maimonides and Gersonides. This controversial book will be of interest to historians of philosophy and to anyone interested in the relation between form and content in philosophical works

The following comments and response were presented at a symposium on Jerrold Seigel's The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), held at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, on 14 October 2005. The symposium was organized by David Armitage, Peter Gordon and Judith Surkis and was sponsored by the CES's Colloquia in Intellectual and Cultural History.

In this second volume on the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, a team of leading experts explore philosophical method, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the teaching of philosophy in Scottish universities and Scottish achievements in the science of the mind.

This new history of Scottish philosophy will include two volumes that focus on the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. In this first volume, a team of leading experts explore the ideas, intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Reid, and many other thinkers.

Intro -- John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Details -- Table of Contents -- Introduction, p. ix -- A Note on the Text, p. xxi -- Acknowledgments, p. xxiii -- The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks -- Original Title Page -- To John Young, Esquire, p. 3 -- Table of Contents, p. 5 -- Account of the Life and Writings of John Millar, Esq., p. 7 -- Introduction, p. 83 -- Chapter I. Of the Rank and Condition of Women in Different Ages -- Sect. 1. The effects of poverty and barbarism, with respect to the condition of women, p. 93 -- Sect. 2. The influence acquired by the mother of a family before marriage is completely established, p. 116 -- Sect. 3. The refinement of the passions of Sex, in the Pastoral Ages, p. 123 -- Sect. 4. The consequences of the introduction of Agriculture, with respect to the intercourse of the Sexes, p. 130 -- Sect. 5. Changes in the condition of women, arising from the improvement of useful Arts and Manufactures, p. 143 -- Sect. 6. The effects of great opulence, and the culture of the elegant arts, upon the relative condition of the sexes, p. 150 -- Chapter II. Of the Jurisdiction and Authority of A Father Over His Children -- Sect. 1. The pwoer of a father in early ages, p. 157 -- Sect. 2. The influence of the improvement of arts upon the jurisdiction of the father, p. 169 -- Chapter III. The Authority of a Chief Over the Members of a Tribe or Village -- Sect. 1. The origin of a chief, and the degrees of influence which he is enabled to acquire, p. 177 -- Sect. 2. The powers with which the chief of a rude tribe is commonly invested, p. 190 -- Chapter IV. The Authority of a Soverign, and of Subordinate Officers, over a Society Composed of Different Tribes or Villages.

A celebratory collection of essays on philosophy, rights and natural law, inspired by the work of Knud HaakonssenOver his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. A hallmark of his approach has been to show how natural law in early modern Europe was not a unified doctrine, but a field of crosscutting idioms that prosecuted competing political and juridical programmes.The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These studies acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances. Key FeaturesCrosses national, disciplinary, intellectual and ideological bordersDeals with a wide range of contexts and aspects over a chronological period from the Reformation to the aftermath of the French RevolutionCovers an unusually wide range of questions at the intersection between natural law, religion and politicsContributors include Maria Rosa Antognazza, James Harris, Simone Zurbuchen and John Cairns"