ABSTRACT
In the hands of its best known misappropriators, Spinoza’s metaphysics has been shown to be insubstantial to ground any of the tenets of deep ecology. This is due to a failure, on the part of deep ecologists, to engage fully with Spinoza’s metaphysics. In this chapter we shall see that, when properly understood, Spinoza’s metaphysics can ground a deep ecological philosophy, where self-realization forms the core of such a thesis.
