Philosophy of the Unconscious by Hartmann, Eduard Von -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents PREFACE. BY C. K. OGDEN EXTRACTS FROM THE AUTHOR’S PREFACES TO THE SEVENTH, EIGHTH, AND NINTH EDITIONS I

INTRODUCTORY.

I. GENERAL PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS

(a) OBJECT OF THE WORK (b) METHOD OF RESEARCH AND MODE OF EXPOSITION (c) PREDECESSORS IN RESPECT OF THE CONCEPTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

II. HOW DO WE COME TO ASSUME AN AIM IN NATURE? (A) THE MANIFESTATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS IN BODILY LIFE.

(1.) THE INFLUENCE OF THE CONSCIOUS WILL (2.) THE INFLUENCE OF CONSCIOUS IDEATION

VIII. THE PLASTIC ENERGY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

(B) THE UNCONSCIOUS IN THE HUMAN MIND.

I. INSTINCT IN THE HUMAN MIND II. THE UNCONSCIOUS IN SEXUAL LOVE III. THE UNCONSCIOUS IN FEELING IV. THE UNCONSCIOUS IN CHARACTER AND MORALITY V. THE UNCONSCIOUS IN THE ÆSTHETIC JUDGMENT AND IN ARTISTIC PRODUCTION VI. THE UNCONSCIOUS IN THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE VII. THE UNCONSCIOUS IN THOUGHT VIII. THE UNCONSCIOUS IN THE ORIGIN OF SENSE-PERCEPTION IX. THE UNCONSCIOUS IN MYSTICISM

X. THE UNCONSCIOUS IN HISTORY XI. THE VALUE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS AND OF CONSCIOUSNESS FOR HUMAN LIFE (C) METAPHYSICS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS.

(1.) THE BECOMING CONSCIOUS OF THE IDEA (2.) THE BECOMING CONSCIOUS OF PAIN AND PLEASURE (3.) THE UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WILL (4.) CONSCIOUSNESS HAS NO DEGREES (5.) THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

IV. THE UNCONSCIOUS AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM

(1.) THE UNCONSCIOUS PSYCHICAL ACTIVITY OF PLANTS (2.) CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE PLANT

V. MATTER AS WILL AND IDEA VI. THE CONCEPTION OF INDIVIDUALITY VII. THE ALL-ONENESS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS. VIII. THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE GOD OF THEISM IX. THE ESSENTIAL NOTION OF GENERATION FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE UNIVERSALITY AND UNITY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS X. THE ASCENDING EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC LIFE ON THE EARTH XI. INDIVIDUATION

(1.) POSSIBILITY AND MANNER OF EFFECTING INDIVIDUATION (2.) INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER

III

XIII. THE IRRATIONALITY OF VOLITION AND THE MISERY OF EXISTENCE

XIV. THE GOAL OF EVOLUTION AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS (TRANSITION TO PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY) XV. THE ULTIMATE PRINCIPLES

(1.) RETROSPECT OF EARLIER PHILOSOPHIES (2.) THE WILL (3.) THE PRESENTATION OR IDEA (4.) THE IDENTICAL SUBSTANCE OF BOTH ATTRIBUTES (5.) THE POSSIBILITY OF METAPHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE

APPENDIX.

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NERVE-CENTRES (1.) INTRODUCTION (2.) NERVE-FIBRE AND GANGLION-CELL (3.) THE SPINAL CORD (4.) THE INNER PSYCHICAL ASPECT OF THE REFLEX PROCESS (5.) THE TELBOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE REFLEX FUNCTION (6.) THE FOUR CHIEF GRADES OF NERVE CENTRES (7.) THE MORPHOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PARTS OF THE BRAIN (8.) THE CENTRES OP THE SPACE-SENSES (9.) THE CEREBELLUM (10.) THE FORE-BRAIN (11.) THE CO-OPERATION AND SUBORDINATION OF THE NERVE-CENTRES (12.) ORGANISM AND SOUL

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