Samuel Newlands is William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Collegiate Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous articles on early modern philosophy and the co-editor (with Larry Jorgensen) of Metaphysics and the Good (2009) and New Essays on Leibniz's Theodicy (2014).
Introduction
1.: The Desiderata of Perfection
2.: Spinoza's Conceptualist Strategy
3.: Conceptual Dependence Monism
4.: Spinoza's Metaphysics of Modality
5.: A Conceptualist Account of Essences
6.: Elusive Individuals
7.: Ethics, Motivation and Egoism
8.: Moral Transformation and Self-Transcendence
9.: The Nature of the Conceptual