Fundamental philosophy
Subtitle: Volume 2
Publisher: D. & J. Sadlier
Published: 1856
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Description: Volume 2 of 2.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS OF VOL. II.; title: BOOK FOURTH.; title: ON IDEAS.; title: CHAPTER PAGE; title: I. Cursory View of Sensism. 3; title: II. Condillac’s Statue 6; title: III. Difference between Geometrical Ideas and tlie Sensible Representations which accompany them 12; title: IV. The Idea and the Intellectual Act 15; title: V. Comparison of Geometrical with Non-Geometrical Ideas.  20; title: VI. In what the Geometrical Idea consists ; and what are its Relations with Sensible Intuition 25; title: VII. The Acting Intellect of the Aristotelians 29; title: VIII. Kant and the Aristotelians 33; title: IX. Historical view of the Value of Pure Ideas 42; title: X. Sensible Intuition 50; title: XI. Two Cognitions : Intuitive and Discursive 54; title: XII. The Sensism of Kant 57; title: XIII. Existence of Pure Intellectual Intuition 59; title: XIV. Value of Intellectual Conceptions. — Abstraction made from Intellectual Intuition 62; title: XV. Illustrations of the Value of General Conceptions 65; title: XVI. Value of Principles, independently of Sensible Intuition  68; title: XVII. Relations of Intuition with the rank of the Perceptive Being 11; title: XVIII. Aspirations of the Human Soul 11; title: XIX. Elements and variety of the characters of Sensible Representation 16; title: XX. Intermediate Representations between Sensible Intuition and the Intellectual Act 81; title: XXI. Determinate and Indeterminate Ideas. 84; title: XXII. Limits of onr Intuition 88; title: XXIII. Of the Necessity involved in Ideas 92; title: XXIV. Existence of Universal Reason 96; title: XXV. In what does Universal Reason consist? 99; title: XXVI. Remarks on the Real Foundation of Pure Possibility 102; title: XXVII. Individual and Intellectual Phenomena explained by the Universal Subsisting Reason 105; title: XXVIII. Observations on the Relation of Language to Ideas   108; title: XXIX. Origin and Character of the relation between Language and Ideas 112; title: XXX. Innate Ideas. 115; title: BOOK FIFTH.; title: IDEA OF BEING.; title: I. Idea of Being 125; title: II. Simplicity and Indeterminateness of the Idea of Being.  127; title: III. Substantive and Copulative Being 129; title: IV. Being, the Object of the Understanding, is not the Possible, Inasmuch as Possible 134; title: V. A Difficulty Solved 138; title: VI. In what Sense the Idea of Being is the Form of the Understanding 141; title: VII. All Science is founded in the Postulate of Existence. 143; title: VIII. The foundation of Pure Possibility, and the Condition of its Existence 147; title: IX. Idea of Negation 150; title: X. Identity; Distinction; Unity; Multiplicity 153; title: XI. Origin of the Idea of Being 155; title: XII. Distinction between Essence and Existence 161; title: XIII. Kant’s Opinion of Reality and Negation  164; title: XIV. Recapitulation and Consequences of the Doctrine concerning the Idea of Being 168; title: BOOK SIXTH.; title: UNITY AND NUMBER.; title: CHAPTER PAGE; title: I. Preliminary Considerations on the Idea of Unity 175; title: II. "What is Unity? 176; title: III. Unity and Simplicity 180; title: IV. Origin of the Tendency of our Mind to Unity 183; title: V. Generation of the Idea of Number 181; title: VI. Connection of the Ideas of Number with their Signs 191; title: VII. Analysis of the Idea of Number in Itself and its Relations with Signs 194; title: BOOK SEVENTH.; title: ON TIME.; title: I. Importance and Difficulty of the Subject 201; title: II. Is Time the Measure of Movement? 203; title: III. Similarities and Differences between Time and Space 206; title: IV. Definition of Time 211; title: V. Time is Nothing Absolute 213; title: VI. Difficulties in the explanation of Velocity 215; title: VII. Fundamental Explanation of Succession 219; title: VIII. What is Co-existence? 223; title: IX. Present, Past, and Future. 226; title: X. Application of the preceding Doctrine to several important Questions 231; title: XI. The Analysis of the Idea of Time confirms its resemblance to the Idea of Space 234; title: XII. Relations of the Idea of Time to Experience 236; title: XIII. Kant’s Opinion   239; title: XIV. Fundamental Explanation of the Objective Possibility and of the Necessity of the Idea of Time 242; title: XV. Important Corollaries 243; title: XVI. Pure Ideal Time and Empirical Time 245; title: XVII. Relations of the Idea of Time and the Principle of Contradiction 247; title: XVIII. Summing up 254; title: XIX. A glance at the Ideas of Space, Number, and Time 257; title: BOOK EIGHTH.; title: THE INFINITE.; title: I. Transitory View of the Actual State of Philosophy 263; title: II. Importance and Anomaly of the Questions on the Idea of the Infinite. 268; title: III. Have we the Idea of the Infinite? 269; title: IV. The Limit 272; title: 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 Series 274; title: VI. Origin of the Vagueness and Apparent Contradictions in the Application of the Idea of the Infinite 278; title: VII. Fundamental Explanation of the Abstract Idea of the Infinite 281; title: VIII. The Definition of Infinity confirmed by Application to Extension 285; title: IX. Conception of an Infinite Number 289; title: X. Conception of Infinite Extension 292; title: XI. Possibility of Infinite Extension 294; title: XII. Solution of Various Objections against the Possibility of an Infinite Extension. 296; title: XIII. Existence of Infinite Extension 302; title: XIV. Possibility of an Actual Infinite Number 304; title: XV. Idea of Absolutely Infinite Being 311; title: XVI. All the Reality contained in Indeterminate Conceptions is affirmed of God 315; title: XVII. All that is not contradictory in Intuitive Ideas is affirmed of God 317; title: XVIII. Intelligence and the Absolutely Infinite Being 321; title: XIX. Summing up 324; title: BOOK NINTH.; title: ON SUBSTANCE.; title: I. Name and General Idea of Substance 331; title: II. Application of the Idea of Substance to Corporeal Objects. 333; title: III. Definition of Corporeal Substance 338; title: IV. Relation of Corporeal Substance to its Accidents 340; title: V. Considerations on Corporeal Substance in Itself 344; title: VI. Substantiality of the Human Me 347; title: VII. Relation of the Proposition, I Think, to the Substantiality of the Me 349; title: VIII. Remarks on the Soul’s Intuition of Itself. 352; title: IX. Kant’s Opinion of the Arguments proving the Substantiality of the Soul. 355; title: X. Kant’s Opinion of the Argument which he calls Paralogism of Personality. 366; title: XI. Simplicity of the Soul 377; title: XII. Kant’s Opinion of the Argument proving the Simplicity of the Soul 381; title: XIII. In what manner the Idea of Substance may be applied to God 394; title: XIV. An important Remark, and Summary 397; title: XV. Pantheism examined in the Order of Ideas 399; title: XVI. Pantheism examined in the Order of External Facts 403; title: XVII. Pantheism examined in the Order of Internal Facts 406; title: XVIII. Fichte’s Pantheistic System 409; title: XIX. Relations of Fichte’s System to the Doctrines of Kant    424; title: XX. Contradiction of Pantheism to the Primary Facts of the Human Mind 429; title: XXI. Rapid glances at the Principal Arguments of Pantheists.  434; title: BOOK TENTH.; title: NECESSITY AND CAUSALITY.; title: I. Necessity 439; title: II. The Unconditioned 442; title: III. Immutability of Necessary and Unconditioned Being  445; title: IV. Ideas of Cause and Effect 448; title: V. Origin of the Notion of Causality 451; title: VI. Formula and Demonstration of the Principle of Causality. 454; title: VII. The Principle of Precedency 457; title: VIII. Causality in Itself. — Insufficiency and Error of some Explanations 467; title: IX. Necessary and sufficient Conditions of true Absolute Causality 474; title: X. Secondary Causality 476; title: XI. Fundamental Explanation of the Origin of the Obscurity of Ideas in what relates to Causality. 479; title: XII. Causality of Pure Force of the Will. 483; title: XIII. Activity 486; title: XIV. Possibility of the Activity of Bodies 493; title: XV. Conjectures as to the Existence of Corporeal Activity 496; title: XVI. Internal Causality. 500; title: XVII. Remarks on Spontaneity 508; title: XVIII. Final Causality ; — Morality 513; title: XIX. Various Explanations of Morality 520; title: XX. Fundamental Explanation of the Moral Order 527; title: XXI. A Glance at the Work 543