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Index
Thales to Dewey
Foreword
Preface
I. Greek Philosophy
1. The Presocratics
What Is Philosophy?
The Milesians
Unity and Multiplicity
A Principle Must Explain
Problems of Thales’ Disciples
Culture in Isolation
Heraclitus
The Pythagoreans
Homeric and Mystery Religions
Mathematics
Parmenides
Logic and Nonsense
Absolute Unity
The Meaning of “Is”
Consistent Monism
The Pluralists
Empedocles
Anaxagoras
Democritus
Inescapable Motion
Zeno
2. The Sophists, Socrates, and Plato
The Rise of Skepticism
Mathematical Irrationality
History and Politics
The Educators
Knowledge and Morality
Lesser Hippias
Socrates and Protagoras
Can Virtue Be Taught?
Anticipatory Comment
Sophistic Epistemology
Queer Logic
The Man-Measure Theory
No One Can Be Mistaken
Everyone Is Mistaken
Objections and Answers
Plato’s Reply
Plato’s Further Reply
Incorporeal Reality
The Phaedo
The Care of the Soul
Immortality
Reminiscence
The Objects of Knowledge
Souls Akin to Ideas
Philosophy for Life and Death
The Harmony
The Weaver’s Coat
Epiphenomenalism
Natural Science
Mechanical and Teleological Explanation
The Method of Hypothesis
The Problems Solved
The Parmenides
Ideas of Mud?
Participation
The Third Man
Nominalism
Plato’s Foresight
But Can Ideas Be Known?
The Timaeus
Being and Becoming
Becoming and Causation
Scientific Detail
3. Aristotle
The Law of Contradiction
Logic and Reality
Indemonstrable Axioms
Significant Speech
Denial of Substance
An Ethical Anticipation
Refutation of Protagoras
Change Is Not Universal
Logic
The Categories
Substance
Relation
Quality
Epistemology
Cause and Demonstration
Primary Premises
Non-scientific Knowledge
From Science to God
Motion
Potentiality and Actuality
No First Motion
Movers
A First Mover
Motionless Movers
A First Motion
God
Form and Matter
The Four Causes
Teleology
Matter and Generation
Individuals and God
4. The Hellenistic Age
The Epicureans
Religious Superstition
Chance and Free Will
Sensation
Pleasure
Death
The Stoics
Against Skepticism
Materialism
Fatalism
God and Fate
Universal Causation
Logic and Fate
The Objections
The Rational Life
Neoplatonism
Refutation of Materialism
Against Aristotle
Cosmology and Ethics
Platonic Themes
The One
II. The Middle Ages
5. The Patristic Period
Paganism and Christianity
Greek Immanentism
Hebrew Transcendence
Functions of Revelation
Superficial Similarities
Alleged Sources of Pauline Theology
Two Cautions
Philo
Allegory
Platonic Ideas in Moses
The Logos
Transcendence and Knowledge
Revelation and Skepticism
Essence and Attribute
The Early Patristics
The Theology of Jesus
Historical Divisions
Minor Patristics
Augustine
Skepticism and Happiness
Truth and God
Communication
Creation
History
Time
Evil
Free Will
Pelagius
The Dark Ages
6. The Scholastic Period
John Scotus Eriugena
Anselm
Conceptualism
The Mohammedans
Thomas Aquinas
Faith and Reason
Natural Theology
Sensation, Imagination, and Intellect
Duns Scotus
Omnipotence and Freedom
Individuation
William of Occam
III. Modern Philosophy
7. Seventeenth-Century Rationalism
The New Civilization
René Descartes
The Cogito and Logic
God and Mathematics
Error and Free Will
The Material World
Soul and Body
Baruch Spinoza
Definition and Existence
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Rational Causality
One Substance
Mechanism and Thought
Ethics and Freedom
Sub Specie Aeternitatis
G. W. Leibniz
The Monads
Teleology and Mechanism
8. British Empiricism
John Locke
Innate Ideas
Simple Ideas
Compound Ideas
Abstract Ideas
Ideas of Relation
But Do We Know Reality?
George Berkeley
Abstract Ideas
Can Two Senses Perceive the Same Idea?
Esse Est Percipi
Do You and I Exist?
Science and Causality
Do Two and Three Equal Five?
David Hume
Do We Think in Images?
Who Does the Thinking?
Causality Again
Why Believe in God?
Skepticism
9. Immanuel Kant
The A Priori
Space and Mathematics
An Intuition
Synthetic and Analytic Judgments
An Illustration
Things in Themselves
Physics and Logic
A Priori Concepts
Unification of Experience
Synthesis
The Categories
Causality
A Theistic View
The Laws of Science
Extensive Quantities
Intensive Quantities
Necessary Connection
Permanent Substance
Cause and Effect
The Existence of God
Mechanics and Morality
The Ethics of Calculation
The Categorical Imperative
Freedom
The Two Worlds
Teleology and Organism
Regulative and Constitutive Principles
10. G. W. F. Hegel
Minor Post-Kantians
Jacobi
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The Phenomenology of Mind
Dialectical Evolution of Truth
The Law of Contradiction
Results and Methods
Romanticism
Substance and Subject
The Truth Is the Whole
Universal Mind
The History of Philosophy
Scientific Procedure
History and Mathematics
Being Is Thought
Propositions and Concepts
Sense Certainty
The Logic
The Categories
Comparison with Kant
No Unknowable
Herr Krug’s Pen
11. Contemporary Irrationalism
Post-Hegelian Thought in Germany
Arthur Schopenhauer
David Friedrich Strauss
Ludwig Feuerbach
Karl Marx
Dialectical Materialism
Collectivism
Too Religious
Human Activity
Making Man Human
The Abandonment of Reason
Søren Kierkegaard
The Individual
The State Church
Subjectivity of Truth
Recent Development
Friedrich Nietzsche
Evolution
The Superman
Eternal Recurrence
The Forms of Reason
Pragmatism
Auguste Comte
Émile Durkheim
Charles Bernard Renouvier and Émile Boutroux
William James
The Serpent of Rationalism
Truth and Falsity
Religious Empiricism
Uncertainty and Risk
F. C. S. Schiller
Practical Consequences
The Man-Measure Theory
Pessimism and Disagreement
Pragmatic Logic
The Making of Truth
John Dewey
Pseudo-Problems
Behaviorism
Experience
Does Science Discover Truth?
Operationalism
Ethical Implications
No Ultimate End
Do We Agree?
Concluding Note
Selected Bibliography
The Works of Gordon H. Clark
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