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Time and Space: A Metaphysical Essay

by Shadworth H. Hodgson. 591 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Shadworth H. Hodgson

Publisher:

   Longman Green Longman Roberts

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  1865
Subjects:   Space And Time
Table of contents
CONTENTS.
PART I.
INTRODUCTION.
§ PAGE
1. Appeals to consciousness 3
CHAPTER I. THE SCOPE OF METAPHYSIC.
2. Subject and Object 6
3. Necessity and Universality 9
4. The term a priori 11
5. Metaphysic is philosophy 13
6. Metaphysic and religion 16
7. Cogito ergo sum 19
8. Metaphysic and psychology 30
9. Metaphysic and ontology 30
CHAPTER II. THE NATURE OF THE COGNITIONS OF TIME AND SPACE.
10. First and second intentions 33
11. Elements and aspects of phenomena 45
12. The formal element in consciousness 61
13. The unity of phenomena in space 87
14. The unity of phenomena in time 103
15. Time and space as pure objects 115
16. The exhaustive divisibility of time and space 125
17. The infinity of time and space 132
CHAPTER III. PSYCHOLOGICAL. THE ORIGIN OF THE COGNITIONS OF TIME AND SPACE.
§ PAGE
18. The object of Psychology 144
19. Three classes of theories 149
20. Theory of a Soul 153
21. Theory of an Ego 164
The phenomenon of Reflection 173
22. The physiological theory 192
23. Origin of the formal element 210
CHAPTER IV. PRESENTATION AND REPRESENTATION.
24. The empirical ego 219
25. Representation 227
26. The immediate and remote object 237
27. Remote objects in connection 251
CHAPTER V. SPONTANEOUS REDINTEGRATION.
28. Redintegration 256
29. Analysis of redintegration 264
30. Results of the analysis 273
31. Volition 283
32. Division of functions in consciousness 286
CHAPTER VI. VOLUNTARY REDINTEGRATION.
33. Abstract and general notions 295
34. Their nature 301
35. The law of Parcimony 305
36. Critical and acquisitive reasoning 311
37. The principle of acquisitive reasoning 316
38. Induction and Deduction 318
39. Relation of critical and acquisitive reasoning 332
40. The three orders, Essendi, Existendi, Cognoscendi 333
PART II
CHAPTER VII. METALOGICAL.
DIVISION 1. THE POSTULATES AND THE CONCEPT-FORM.
§ PAGE
41. Existence and Non-existence 345
42. Consciousness and thought 350
43. Origin of the laws of thought 355
44. The Concept-form 360
45. Some remarks on Hegel's Logic 364
DIVISION 2. THE CONCEPT.
46. The nature of concepts 403
47. Some cases examined 413
48. The logical object and the logical unit 419
49. Categories or forms of thought 425
50. The combination of concepts 428
51. The import of propositions 432
52. Categorical propositions 436
53. Hypothetical propositions 448
54. Disjunctive propositions 451
55. Hypothetico-disjunctive propositions 453
56. Syllogisms 455
1st. Categorical. 2d. Hypothetical. 3d. Disjunctive. 4th. Hypothetico-disjunctive.
57. Empirical and formal reasoning 469
58. Review of the analysis of the laws of Logic 477
DIVISION 3. RATIO SUFFICIENS.
59. Cause and Reason 487
60. The formal cause 493
61. Intuition and thought 494
62. Nihil Absoluti 503
CHAPTER VIII. REASON.
§ PAGE
63. Intuitive reflection 509
64. Reasoning reflection 513
65. Retrospect of metaphysical philosophy 520
Plato . Aristotle . Post-Aristotelian philosophy. Giordano Bruno . Descartes and his successors.
66. Other domains of the reason 539
Relation between ethic and physic. Ethic. Connection of ethic and law. Poetry.
67. Progress of science generally 552
CHAPTER IX. IDEAS.
68. Classification of ideas 563
69. Three instances examined 568
70. Faith 573
71. The logical idea of God 576
EPILOGUE 588
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