PART THREE

MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Introduction[157]

SECTION ONE

Modern Philosophy in its First Statement[170]
A. Bacon[170]
B. Jacob Boehme[188]

SECTION TWO

Period of the Thinking Understanding[217]
Chapter I.—The Metaphysics of the Understanding[220]
A. First Division[220]
1. Descartes[220]
2. Spinoza[252]
3. Malebranche[290]
B. Second Division[295]
1. Locke[295]
2. Hugo Grotius[313]
3. Thomas Hobbes[315]
4. Cudworth, Clarke, Wollaston[319]
5. Puffendorf[321]
6. Newton[322]
C. Third Division[325]
1. Leibnitz[325]
2. Wolff[348]
3. German Popular Philosophy[356]
Chapter II.—Transition Period[360]
A. Idealism and Scepticism[363]
1. Berkeley[364]
2. Hume[369]
B. Scottish Philosophy[375]
1. Thomas Reid[376]
2. James Beattie[377]
3. James Oswald[377]
4. Dugald Stewart[378]
C. French Philosophy[379]
1. The Negative Aspect[388]
2. The Positive Aspect[392]
a. Materialism[393]
b. Robinet[394]
3. Idea of a Concrete Universal Unity[397]
a. Opposition between Sensation and Thought[398]
b. Montesquieu[399]
c. Helvetius[400]
d. Rousseau[400]
D. The German Illumination[403]

SECTION THREE

Recent German Philosophy[409]
A. Jacobi[410]
B. Kant[423]
C. Fichte[479]
1. The First Principles of Fichte’s Philosophy[481]
2. Fichte’s System in a Re-constituted Form[505]
3. The More Important of the Followers of Fichte[506]
a. Friedrich von Schlegel[507]
b. Schleiermacher[508]
c. Novalis[510]
d. Fries, Bouterweck, Krug[510]
D. Schelling[512]
E. Final Result[545]
Index[555]
Corrigenda in Vols. I. and II.[570]