Copyright 1906
By Eugene Dietzgen


CONTENTS


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Introduction by Anton Pannekoek[7]
The Nature of Human Brain Work
Preface[41]
I. Introduction[47]
II. Pure Reason or the Faculty of Thought in General[61]
III. The Nature of Things[80]
IV. The Practice of Reason in Physical Science[104]
a Cause and Effect[108]
b Matter and Mind[119]
c Force and Matter[124]
V. "Practical Reason" or Morality[133]
a The Wise and Reasonable[133]
b Morality and Right[143]
c The Holy[156]
Letters on Logic
First Letter[177]
Second Letter[181]
Third Letter[186]
Fourth Letter[191]
Fifth Letter[198]
Sixth Letter[205]
Seventh Letter[212]
Eighth Letter[217]
Ninth Letter[225]
Tenth Letter[230]
Eleventh Letter[236]
Twelfth Letter[242]
Thirteenth Letter[248]
Fourteenth Letter[255]
Fifteenth Letter[260]
Sixteenth Letter[265]
Seventeenth Letter[271]
Eighteenth Letter[277]
Nineteenth Letter[283]
Twentieth Letter[289]
Twenty-first Letter[296]
Twenty-second Letter[301]
Twenty-third Letter (a)[307]
Twenty-third Letter (b)[312]
Twenty-fourth Letter[318]
The Positive Outcome of Philosophy
Preface[327]
I. Positive Knowledge as a Special Object[333]
II. The Power of Perception Is Kin to the Universe[337]
III. As to How the Intellect Is Limited and Unlimited[342]
IV. The Universality of Nature[348]
V. The Understanding as a Part of the Human Soul[354]
VI. Consciousness Is Endowed With the Faculty of Knowing
as Well as With the Feeling of the Universality
of All Nature[363]
VII. The Relationship or Identity of Spirit and Nature[369]
VIII. Understanding Is Material[376]
IX. The Four Principles of Logic[381]
X. The Function of Understanding on the Religious Field[393]
XI. The Distinction Between Cause and Effect Is only
One of the Means to Facilitate Understanding[401]
XII. Mind and Matter: Which Is Primary, Which Is
Secondary?[409]
XIII. The Extent to Which the Doubts of the Possibility
of Clear and Accurate Understanding Have Been
Overcome[418]
XIV. Continuation of the Discussion on the Difference
Between Doubtful and Evident Understanding[428]
XV. Conclusion[436]

INTRODUCTION