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Translator's Note .................................................................................v
German Editor's Introduction
Author's Foreword ................................................................................1
1. Issues of act and potency ..........................................................5
§ 2. The immanent starting point of philosophy. Act and potency in the immanent sphere. From the imm
§ 3. A methodological look back and ahead ....................................23
II Act and Potency from the perspective of formal ontology ...27
§ 2. Genus, Species, and Individual in relation to the basic forms: object, what, and being. Primary
§ 3. Classification of ontological forms according to their degrees of generality. Selfsufficiency /
§ 4. Potentiality and actuality from the perspective of formal
III Transition from a formal to a material inquiry ..................75
§ 2. The method of material ontology: intuition and thought. Formal and material intuition. Abstract
§ 3. The terms "category" and "transcendental." .............................89
§ 4. The task of material ontology. Method: formal or material'? Attempt to classify material ontolo
IV Attempt to define matter materially ...................................101
§ 2. The potentiality of being .........................................................104
§ 3. The potentiality of forms or species. The problem of "ideas." Idea and spirit .................
§ 4. The formation of matter. The nature (substance, form, species) of the thing; its mode of being.
V Attempt to define spirit .........................................................121
§ 2. Subjective and objective spirit. The I, person, spiritual substance ...........................
§ 3. Infinite and finite persons ........................................................127
§ 4. Spiritual life as intellectual life. {vii} .....................................129
§ 5. Created pure spirits (knowledge of God, self, material things, other spirits)
§ 6. Problems of species intelligibiles and objective spirit............139
a. Human "ideas." .........................................................................140
b. The principles of knowledge and of the understanding........150
c. Potency, act, habit .....................................................................158
d. Alternation of actuality and habituality. Participation of the will .............................
§ 7. Habit and act in pure spirits .....................................................163
§ 8. Attempt to define the human spirit .........................................168
b. Creative activity. Objective spirit ....................................172
c. Appetition ..........................................................................176
d. Shaping oneself - molding character ..............................180
e. Core of the person .............................................................183
2. Actuality of the core. Relation to the actuality of life. External dependence of the actuality of
3. Depth levels and the simplicity of the core ..............186
4. The three questions interrelated ................................191
5. Can the core be completely actualized? Can it be annihilated fully or partially'? ...............
6. Summary of the provisional results on the core of the person ....................................
§ 9. Summary of the previous results for an ontology of the spirit .................................
VI Finite things as hierarchy of "formed matter" in contrast to Metaphysische Gesprkche by H. Conrad
§ 2. Possible approaches to the relationship of body and soul, matter and spirit. {viii} ...........
§ 3. Attempt to distinguish soul and spirit by comparison with the divine Spirit ...................
§ 4. Comparison of the soul with "soul-less" finite spirits...........234
§ 5. The soul of plants ...................................................................247
§ 6. The soul of animals .................................................................249
§ 7. Man's spirit, man's body, man's soul (individuality)...........254
§ 8. Essence, potencies, core of the soul .......................................261
§ 9. Personally spiritual life ...........................................................264
§ 10. "Soul of nature" and "soul of spirit." .....................................265
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