The Substance of Spinoza Author:Errol E. Harris In a series of essays covering the main aspects of Spinoza's philosophy as they have been treated by contemporary and earlier commentators, Errol E. Harris offers his own interpretation of Spinoza as a dialectical thinker, and addresses other commentators' misunderstandings of some of Spinoza's primary principles. Some of the main themes of "Sal... more »vation from Despair", Harris's earlier work on Spinoza's philosophy, are here extended and developed in the light of current literature. The opening essays discuss Spinoza's metaphysics and epistemology, the problem of relating finite to infinite in his system, the infinity of the attributes of substance, human nature and the body-mind relation, politics and religion. The latter part of the book addresses Spinoza's influence on later philosophers and their interpretations of his doctrine. In the course of his discussion, Professor Harris places stress on Spinoza's holism and its implications both within and beyond Spinoza's own writings.« less