Fundamental Philosophy - Volume I
Jaime Balmes, Spanish Catholic priest known for his political and philosophical writing (1810 – 1848)
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Table of Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Book First. On Certainty
- Chapter I. Importance And Utility Of The Question Of Certainty
- Chapter Ii. True State Of The Question
- Chapter Iii. Certainty Of The Human Race, And Philosophical Certainty
- Chapter Iv. Existence Of Transcendental Science In The Absolute Intellectual Order
- Chapter V. Transcendental Science In The Human Intellectual Order Cannot Emanate From The Senses
- Chapter Vi. Transcendental Science-insufficiency Of Real Truths
- Chapter Vii. The Philosophy Of The Me Cannot Produce Transcendental Science
- Chapter Viii. Universal Identity
- Chapter Ix. Universal Identity-continued
- Chapter X. Problem Of Representation - Monads Of Leibnitz
- Chapter Xi. Problem Of Representation Examined
- Chapter Xii. Immediate Intelligibility
- Chapter Xiii. Representation Of Causality And Ideality
- Chapter Xiv. Impossibility Of Finding The First Principle In The Ideal Order
- Chapter Xv. The Indispensable Condition Of All Human Knowledge-means Of Perceiving Truth
- Chapter Xvi. Confusion Of Ideas In Disputes On The Fundamental Principle
- Chapter Xvii. Thought And Existence-descartes' Principle
- Chapter Xviii. The Principle Of Descartes, Continued-his Method
- Chapter Xix. Value Of The Principle - I Think: Its-analysis
- Chapter Xx. True Sense Of The Principle Of Contradiction-kant's Opinion
- Chapter Xxi. Does The Principle Of Contradiction Merit The Title Of Fundamental
- Chapter Xxii. The Principle Of Evidence
- Chapter Xxiii. The Criterion Of Consciousness
- Chapter Xxiv. The Criterion Of Evidence
- Chapter Xxv. The Objective Value Of Ideas
- Chapter Xxvi. Can All Cognitions Be Reduced To The Perception Of Identity
- Chapter Xxvii. Continuation Of The Same Subject
- Chapter Xxviii. Continuation Of The Same Subject
- Chapter Xxix. Are There True Synthetic Judgments A Priori In The Sense Of Kant
- Chapter Xxx. Vico's Criterion
- Chapter Xxxi. Continuation Of The Same Subject
- Chapter Xxxii. The Criterion Of Common Sense
- Chapter Xxxiii. Error Of Lamennais On Common Consent
- Chapter Xxxiv. Summary And Conclusion
- Book Second. On Sensation
- Chapter I. Sensation In Itself
- Chapter Ii. Matter Is Incapable Of Sensation
- Chapter Iii. Sleep And Waking
- Chapter Iv. Relation Of Sensations To An External World
- Chapter V. An Idealist Hypothesis
- Chapter Vi. Is The External And Immediate Cause Of Sensations A Free Cause
- Chapter Vii. Analysis Of The Objectiveness Of Sensations
- Chapter Viii. Sensation Of Extension
- Chapter Ix. Objectiveness Of The Sensation Of Extension
- Chapter X. Force Of Touch To Make Sensations Objective
- Chapter Xi. Inferiority Of Touch Compared With Other Senses
- Chapter Xii. Can Sight Alone Give Us The Idea Of A Surface
- Chapter Xiii. Cheselden's Blind Man
- Chapter Xiv. Can Sight Give Us The Idea Of A Solid
- Chapter Xv. Sight And Motion
- Chapter Xvi. Possibility Of Other Senses
- Chapter Xvii. Existence Of New Senses
- Chapter Xviii. Solution Of Lamennais' Objection
- Book Third. Extension And Space
- Chapter I. Extension Inseparable From The Idea Of Body
- Chapter Ii. Extension Not Perceptible As The Direct And Immediate Object Of Sensations
- Chapter Iii. Scientific Fruitfulness Of The Idea Of Extension
- Chapter Iv. Reality Of Extension
- Chapter V. Geometrical Exactness Realized In Nature
- Chapter Vi. Remarks On Extension
- Chapter Vii. Space-nothing
- Chapter Viii. Descartes And Leibnitz On Space
- Chapter Ix. Opinion Of Those Who Attribute To Space A Nature Distinct From Bodies
- Chapter X. Opinion Of Those Who Hold Space To Be The Immensity Of God
- Chapter Xi. Fenelon's Opinion
- Chapter Xii. What Space Consists In
- Chapter Xiii. New Difficulties
- Chapter Xiv. Another Important Consequence
- Chapter Xv. Illusion Of Fixed Points In Space
- Chapter Xvi. Observations On Kant's Opinion
- Chapter Xvii. Inability Of Kant's Doctrine To Solve The Problem Of The Possibility Of Experience
- Chapter Xviii. The Problem Of Sensible Experience
- Chapter Xix. Extension Abstracted From Phenomena
- Chapter Xx. Are There Absolute Magnitudes
- Chapter Xxi. Pure Intelligibility Of The Extended World
- Chapter Xxii. Infinite Divisibility
- Chapter Xxiii. Unextended Points
- Chapter Xxiv. A Conjecture On The Transcendental Notion Of Extension
- Chapter Xxv. Harmony Of The Real, Phenomenal, And Ideal Orders
- Chapter Xxvi. Character Of The Relations Of The Real Order To The Phenomenal
- Chapter Xxvii. Whether Every Thing Must Be In Some Place
- Chapter Xxviii. Contingency Of Corporeal Relations
- Chapter Xxix. Solution Of Two Difficulties
- Chapter Xxx. Passive Sensibility
- Chapter Xxxi. Possibility Of A Greater Sphere In Active Sensibility
- Chapter Xxxii. Possibility Of The Penetration Of Bodies
- Chapter Xxxiii. A Triumph Of Religion In The Field Of Philosophy
- Chapter Xxxiv. Conclusion And Summing Up
- Notes To Book First
- Note To Book Second
- Notes To Book Third
- Footnotes
