Abstract
Missing from Spinoza's philosophy of mind is the notion of the self, or subject. However, he recognizes the existence of self-consciousness. This means that our ideas may be accompanied by ideas of themselves, and those ideas by ideas of ideas about those ideas. ‘Freedom’ examines Spinoza's thoughts on the independence of the self. Spinoza's theory of the human agent is that we are largely governed by ‘unconscious’ forces. Does Spinoza believe in a self who takes charge of the causality of actions? What is freedom? Do we have power over our own situation? The free man is the one conscious of the necessities that compel him. Spinoza devotes many pages to describing the mental condition of such a person
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