THE EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHERS FROM DESCARTES TO NIETZSCHE
Table of Contents

Edited by Monroe C. Beardsley

 

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION by Monroe C. Beardsley

BIBLIOGRAPHY

RENE DESCARTES

Discourse on Method, PARTS I-III

Meditations on First Philosophy

Supplementary Passages

      Intuition and Deduction

      Metaphysical Doubt and Certainty

      The Cogito

      The Clearness and Distinctness Criterion

      Infinity and the Idea of God

      Innate Ideas

      Eternal Truths

      Is Descartes' Argument Circular?

      Substance

      Modes

      Space and Bodies

      The Pineal Gland

      The Automatism of Brutes

BLAISE PASCAL

Thoughts (abridged)

BARUCH SPINOZA

Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (abridged)

Theologico-Poli!ical Treatise, Chapter XX

Supplementary Passages

      Experience and Definition

      Substance and Attribute

      Natura Naturata

      Man's Dependence upon God

      Method

      Excusabilitv

      The Nature of Evil

GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ

First Truths

Discourse on Metaphysics

Monadology

Supplementary Passages

      Necessary and Contingent Truths

      Space and Time

      Expression

      The Ontological Argument

      The Relation between Soul and Body

      Progress

      Possibility and Existence

      Matter

      Monads

      The Pre-established Harmony

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

The Social Contract (abridged)

 

IMMANUEL KANT

Critique of Pure Reason (abridged)

Supplementary Passages

      The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative

      The Postulates of Practical Reason

      Taste and the Aesthetic Judgment

JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE

The Vocation of Man, Book III

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Introduction to the Philosophy of History

Logic (Part I of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences), Chapter 7, A

Supplementary Passages

      Philosophy and the Actual World

      Dialectic

      Spirit

      Art

      Religion

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

The World as Will and Idea (abridged)

AUGUSTE COMTE

A General View of Positivism, Chapters I and VI (abridged)

ERNST MACH

The Analysis of Sensations & the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical, Chs. I & XV

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil (abridged)

Supplementary Passages

      The Will to Power

      Eternal Recurrence

      The Superman

      Good and Evil

      Christianity

      Conscience

      Art

 

 

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John Peterson

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