[CONTENTS OF VOL. II.]

[BOOK FOURTH].
ON IDEAS.
CHAPTERPAGE
[I].Cursory View of Sensism3
[II].Condillac's Statue6
[III].Difference between Geometrical Ideas and the Sensible Representations which accompany them12
[IV].The Idea and the Intellectual Act15
[V].Comparison of Geometrical with Non-Geometrical Ideas20
[VI].In what the Geometrical Idea consists; and what are its Relations with Sensible Intuition25
[VII].The Acting Intellect of the Aristotelians29
[VIII].Kant and the Aristotelians33
[IX].Historical View of the Value of Pure Ideas42
[X].Sensible Intuition50
[XI].Two Cognitions: Intuitive and Discursive54
[XII].The Sensism of Kant57
[XIII].Existence of Pure Intellectual Intuition59
[XIV].Value of Intellectual Conceptions.—Abstraction made from Intellectual Intuition62
[XV].Illustrations of the Value of General Conceptions65
[XVI].Value of Principles, independently of Sensible Intuition68
[XVII].Relations of Intuition with the rank of the Perceptive Being71
[XVIII].Aspirations of the Human Soul74
[XIX].Elements and variety of the characters of Sensible Representation76
[XX].Intermediate Representations between Sensible Intuition and the Intellectual Act81
[XXI].Determinate and Indeterminate Ideas84
[XXII].Limits of our Intuition88
[XXIII].Of the Necessity involved in Ideas92
[XXIV].Existence of Universal Reason96
[XXV].In what does Universal Reason consist?99
[XXVI].Remarks on the Real Foundation of Pure Possibility102
[XXVII].Individual and Intellectual Phenomena explained by the Universal Subsisting Reason105
[XXVIII].Observations on the Relation of Language to Ideas108
[XXIX].Origin and Character of the relation between Language and Ideas112
[XXX].Innate Ideas115
[BOOK FIFTH].
IDEA OF BEING.
[I.]Idea of Being125
[II].Simplicity and Indeterminateness of the Idea of Being127
[III].Substantive and Copulative Being129
[IV].Being, the Object of the Understanding, is not the Possible, Inasmuch as Possible134
[V].A Difficulty Solved138
[VI].In what Sense the Idea of Being is the Form of the Understanding141
[VII].All Science is founded in the Postulate of Existence143
[VIII].The foundation of Pure Possibility, and the Condition of its Existence147
[IX].Idea of Negation150
[X].Identity; Distinction; Unity; Multiplicity153
[XI].Origin of the Idea of Being155
[XII].Distinction between Essence and Existence161
[XIII].Kant's Opinion of Reality and Negation164
[XIV].Recapitulation and Consequences of the Doctrine concerning the Idea of Being168
[BOOK SIXTH].
UNITY AND NUMBER.
[I].Preliminary Considerations on the Idea of Unity175
[II].What is Unity?176
[III].Unity and Simplicity180
[IV].Origin of the Tendency of our Mind to Unity183
[V].Generation of the Idea of Number187
[VI].Connection of the Ideas of Number with their Signs191
[VII].Analysis of the Idea of Number in Itself and its Relations with Signs194
[BOOK SEVENTH].
ON TIME.
[I].Importance and Difficulty of the Subject201
[II].Is Time the Measure of Movement?203
[III].Similarities and Differences between Time and Space206
[IV].Definition of Time211
[V].Time is Nothing Absolute213
[VI].Difficulties in the explanation of Velocity215
[VII].Fundamental Explanation of Succession219
[VIII].What is Co-existence?223
[IX].Present, Past, and Future226
[X].Application of the preceding Doctrine to several important Questions231
[XI].The Analysis of the Idea of Time confirms its resemblance to the Idea of Space234
[XII].Relations of the Idea of Time to Experience236
[XIII].Kant's Opinion239
[XIV].Fundamental Explanation of the Objective Possibility and of the Necessity of the Idea of Time242
[XV].Important Corollaries243
[XVI].Pure Ideal Time and Empirical Time245
[XVII].Relations of the Idea of Time and the Principle of Contradiction247
[XVIII].Summing up254
[XIX].A glance at the Ideas of Space, Number, and Time257
[BOOK EIGHTH].
THE INFINITE.
[I].Transitory View of the Actual State of Philosophy263
[II].Importance and Anomaly of the Questions on the Idea of the Infinite268
[III].Have we the Idea of the Infinite?269
[IV].The Limit272
[V].Considerations on the Application of the Idea of the Infinite to continuous quantities, and to Discrete Quantities, in so far as these last are expressed in Series274
[VI].Origin of the Vagueness and Apparent Contradictions in the Application of the Idea of the Infinite278
[VII].Fundamental Explanation of the Abstract Idea of the Infinite281
[VIII].The Definition of Infinity confirmed by Application to Extension285
[IX].Conception of an Infinite Number289
[X].Conception of Infinite Extension292
[XI].Possibility of Infinite Extension294
[XII].Solution of Various Objections against the Possibility of an Infinite Extension296
[XIII].Existence of Infinite Extension302
[XIV].Possibility of an Actual Infinite Number304
[XV].Idea of Absolutely Infinite Being311
[XVI].All the Reality contained in Indeterminate Conceptions is affirmed of God315
[XVII].All that is not contradictory in Intuitive Ideas is affirmed of God317
[XVIII].Intelligence and the Absolutely Infinite Being321
[XIX].Summing up324
[BOOK NINTH].
ON SUBSTANCE.
[I].Name and General Idea of Substance331
[II].Application of the Idea of Substance to Corporeal Objects333
[III].Definition of Corporeal Substance338
[IV].Relation of Corporeal Substance to its Accidents340
[V].Considerations on Corporeal Substance in Itself344
[VI].Substantiality of the Human Me347
[VII].Relation of the Proposition, I Think, to the Substantiality of the Me349
[VIII].Remarks on the Soul's Intuition of Itself352
[IX].Kant's Opinion of the Arguments proving the Substantiality of the Soul355
[X].Kant's Opinion of the Argument which he calls Paralogism of Personality366
[XI].Simplicity of the Soul377
[XII].Kant's Opinion of the Argument proving the Simplicity of the Soul381
[XIII].In what manner the Idea of Substance may be applied to God394
[XIV].An important Remark, and Summary397
[XV].Pantheism examined in the Order of Ideas399
[XVI].Pantheism examined in the Order of External Facts403
[XVII].Pantheism examined in the Order of Internal Facts406
[XVIII].Fichte's Pantheistic System409
[XIX].Relations of Fichte's System to the Doctrines of Kant424
[XX].Contradiction of Pantheism to the Primary Facts of the Human Mind429
[XXI].Rapid glances at the Principal Arguments of Pantheists434
[BOOK TENTH].
NECESSITY AND CAUSALITY.
[I].Necessity439
[II].The Unconditioned442
[III].Immutability of Necessary and Unconditioned Being445
[IV].Ideas of Cause and Effect448
[V].Origin of the Notion of Causality451
[VI].Formula and Demonstration of the Principle of Causality454
[VII].The Principle of Precedency457
[VIII].Causality in Itself.—Insufficiency and Error of some Explanations467
[IX].Necessary and sufficient Conditions of true Absolute Causality474
[X].Secondary Causality476
[XI].Fundamental Explanation of the Origin of the Obscurity of Ideas in what relates to Causality479
[XII].Causality of Pure Force of the Will483
[XIII].Activity486
[XIV].Possibility of the Activity of Bodies493
[XV].Conjectures as to the Existence of Corporeal Activity496
[XVI].Internal Causality500
[XVII].Remarks on Spontaneity508
[XVIII].Final Causality;—Morality513
[XIX].Various Explanations of Morality520
[XX].Fundamental Explanation of the Moral Order527
[XXI].A Glance at the Work543

[BOOK FOURTH.]

ON IDEAS.

FUNDAMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.