Table of Contents

I Introduction.- I. Contemporary Despair and its Antidote.- II. Geometrical Method.- II God.- III. The Absurdity of Atheism.- IV. God’s Creativity.- III Man.- V. Body and Mind.- VI. Passion and Action.- IV Human Welfare.- VII. Good and Evil.- VIII. The Mastery of Fate.- IX. The State and Politics.- X. Religion.- XI. Human Immortality.- Epilogue.- XII Spinoza in Retrospect.- Bibliographical Appendix.