The student who wishes to acquire an elementary knowledge of philosophy will find it both easier and more profitable to read some of the works of the great philosophers than to attempt to derive an all-round view from handbooks. The following are specially recommended:
PLATO: Republic, especially Books VI and VII.
DESCARTES: Meditations.
SPINOZA: Ethics.
LEIBNIZ: The Monadology.
BERKELEY: Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.
HUME: Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.
KANT: Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysic.
Index
Absolute idea,
Acquaintance,
- with Self?
Act, mental,
Analytic,
Appearance,
A priori,
- mental?
Arithmetic,
Association,
Being,
Belief,
- instinctive,
Berkeley, George (Bishop),
Bismarck, Prince Otto von,
Bradley, Francis Herbert,
Cantor, Georg,
Causality,
China, Emperor of,
Cogito, ergo sum, See Descartes
Coherence,
Colours,
Concept,
Constituents,
Contradiction, law of,
Correspondence of belief and fact,
Correspondence of sense-data and physical objects,
Criterion,
Critical philosophy,
Hallucinations. See Dreams
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
Hume, David,
Ideas,
- abstract,
- innate,
- platonic,
Idealism,
- defined,
- grounds of,
Idealists,
Identity, law of,
Induction,
- principle of,
Inference, logical and psychological,
Infinity,
Innate ideas and principles. See Ideas
Introspection,
Kant, Immanuel,
Knowledge:
- by acquaintance and by description,
- definition of,
- derivative,
- indubitable?
- intuitive,
- of future,
- of general principles,
- of things and of truths,
- of universe,
- only of mental things?
- philosophical,
- theory of,
Laws, general,
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,
Light,
Locke, John,
Logic,
Mathematics,
Matter,
- existence of,
- nature of,
Memory,
Mind,
- the only reality? See also Idealists what is in the,
Monad,
Modadism,
Monism,
Motion, laws of,
'Thing in itself',
'Thought, Laws of',
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists,
Time,
Touch,
Truth,
- Definition of,
