CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

         I.  PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENT

                 1.  The Native Hue of Coleridge’s Mind

                 2.  Early Studies

                 3.  “The Great and Excellent Dr. Hartley”

                 4.  Berkeley and Spinoza

                 5.  German Philosophy

        II.  LOGIC

                 1.  Idea of Logic

                 2.  Reason and Understanding

                 3.  Division of Logic : The Canon

                 4.  Critical Logic: The Place of Judgment in General

                 5.  Synthetic Judgments

                 6.  Parting with Kant: The Principle of Trichotomy

       III.  METAPHYSICS

                 1.  Coleridge’s Criticism of Kant

                 2.  The Meaning of Ideas

                 3.  The Idea Idearum

                 4.  How the Idea can Involve Reality

                 5.  Coleridge’s Theological Platonism

       IV.  PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

                 1.  Coleridge’s Interest in Science

                 2.  The Idea of Nature

                 3.  The Idea of Life

                 4.  Coleridge and Evolution

        V.  MORAL PHILOSOPHY

                 1.  The Science versus Schemes of Morals

                 2.  The Method of Ethics

                 3.  The Idea of the Self

                 4.  Will and Motive

                 5.  The Meaning of the Good

                 6.  Motive and Consequences

                 7.  Love the Fulfilling of the Law

      VI.  POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

                 1.  Coleridge’s Interest in Politics

                 2.  The Origin of Political Obligation

                 3.  The Law of Nations

                 4.  The Idea of the Body Politic

                 5.  Practical Applications

     VII.  THEORY OF FINE ART

                 1.  Contemporary Aesthetics

                 2.  Psychological and Metaphysical Data

                 3.  Poetic Imagination

                 4.  Imitation in Art

                 5.  The Place of Taste

                 6.  Theory and Practice in Literary Criticism

    VIII.  PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

                 1.  Specific Problems of Religious Philosophy

                 2.  The Meaning of Religion

                 3.  The Idea of God

                 4.  The Personal Being of God

                 5.  God as Special Providence

                 6.  Immortality of the Soul

                 7.  Nature and Origin of Evil

                 8.  Doctrine of Redemption

                 9.  The Origin of the Idea of God in the Soul

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX A: MATERIALS FOR STUDY OF COLERIDGE’S PHILOSOPHY

APPENDIX B: JOSEPH HENRY GREEN’S SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY

APPENDIX C: PASSAGES FROM MS. IN THE HENRY E. HUNTINGTON LIBRARY

INDEX