CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

BOOK FOURTH.
ON IDEAS.
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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