2. Illustrated by the idea of Nature and Natural 128
3. Phases of idea of Liberty 133
(a) Juristic phase = “absence of restraint” 134
(b) Political phase = “rights of citizenship” 135
(c) Positive connection of (a) and (b) 136
(d) Philosophical phase = “being oneself in
fullest sense” 137
(e) Danger and justification of using same term
for (a) and (d) 142
4. Liberty as attribute of the will that wills itself 146
5. This “real” will identified with State 149 (a) State in this sense is social life as a whole 150 (b) How State is force as extension of “individual” mind 152
CHAPTER VII
PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE IDEA OF A REAL OR GENERAL WILL 155-179
1. Object of the Chapter 155
2. Connection between social and mental groupings 156
(1) Analogy between them 156
(i) Associations of persons and of ideas 156
(ii) Organisation of social groups and of ideas 159
(2) Identity of social and mental groupings 170
(i) Social groups as an aspect of mental systems 170
(ii) Individual minds as structures of
appercipient systems 173
(iii) Social whole as a system of mental systems 175