Love and Objective Reality in Spinoza’s Account of the Mind’s Power over the Affects

Part V of Spinoza's Ethics: Intuitive knowledge, contentment of mind, and intellectual love of God

“…See Pollock (forthcoming) for discussion of 20th‐century critiques of Spinoza's love of God by Cohen, Rosenzweig, and Soloveitchik. For other discussions of the love (or loves) of God in Part V, see Alquié (1981), Matheron (1997), Rice (2002), Melamed (2020), Nadler (2020), Carlisle (2021), and Alanen (2022).…”

“…59 59 For some recent treatments, see Lin (2009), Lebuffe (2010a), Kisner (2011), De Dijn (2011), C. Marshall (2012), Tucker (2015) Newlands (2018), Sangiacomo (2019), Youpa (2019), Nadler (2020), and Alanen (2022). …”