His easy views of all events. - Vagueness of - The Alexandrine masters. - Proclus. - Plato. - Aristotle. Xenophanes the Eleatic. - - - - Pythagoras. Hylozoists and others.. - The Orientals. - Egyptian specula- Definition of pantheism. -- How it differs from theism and atheism. - atheism and pantheism agree. - Language of pantheists often ambiguous. Many names for one thing. - Knowledge of Spinozism which the purpose of this work requires. Descartes was Spinoza's guide. This doubted. — Opinion of Saisset. - Parentage of Descartes. - Early purpose. - Criterion of truth. Not original with Descartes. - Testimony as to Descartes' posi- tion. Four main points in Cartesianism. -"I think, therefore I am."- Crit- icism of Gassendi and Huxley. - Descartes to be taken as he understood himself. The Cartesian method. - Descartes' first step. - A foothold for Spinozism.- - The recognition of Reid's doctrine of necessary truths would have saved Descartes. - The Cartesian argument for the divine existence favors Spinozism. — The argument for a God which now tends to prevail. – Descartes only seems to anticipate this. How his argument legitimates pantheism.- -The Cartesian method aids the tendency to pantheism. — The tendency further strengthened by his denial of second causes. — - Spinoza's logic faultless. - The premises of pantheism untenable. — The central posi- tion of Spinozism. The dogmatic result. — - Three kinds of knowledge. - Some account of the Ethics. - Subject of the Second Part. — Of Part Third. -Of Part Fourth. — Of Part Fifth. Of the First Part. - Definitions. — Axioms. A demonstration. Perfection of superstructure. - butes of substance. — Bearing on question of immortality. - Fatalism. — The a priori philosophy not to be judged by Spinozism. Malebranche. - in Kant. - - A reaction. Empiricism. This movement to be passed over for the present. - Revival of Spinozism.. -What is here attempted. · - Relation of Leibnitz to the new movement. - The Leibnitz-Wolfian philosophy. - Kant's earlier views. The need of a critic suggested by Hume. - Critique of the pure reason. - Relation of the reason to the understanding. - Space and time forms of the reason. — The categories of the understanding. — Ideas of the reason. What they are. Their subjective nature. - Where this critique leaves us. - Kant's plan broader than this sphere of the reason. - Another faculty. Function of the practical reason. - Result not satisfactory. - Cri - tique of the judgment. The object not attained. Three distinct tendencies Reinhold. Jacobi. His mystical tendency. - Argues against Kant's first critique. — The thinkers of his time not with him. The inter- view with Lessing. Character of Jacobi. Hegel's criticism. - Fichte. Thought-activity the only knowable thing. - The non-ego. — A product of The alternative of atheism or pantheism. - Accused of atheism.. Becomes a pantheist. Unlike Spinoza. The true wisdom. - Fichte's pan- Schellingian doctrine of knowledge. - How of the pantheist. His system described. Three potences. - How they work in the evolution of spirit. - Distinction between nature and spirit. How Schelling would account for Christianity. -The spirit of Schelling's system.. - Short continuance of this school of pantheism. Schelling and Edgar A. Poc. - Culminated in Hegel. - The best refutation of error its clear statement. - An anachronism. - Hegel.— The absolute idea. -Use of Kant's antinomies:- The logical movement. — Natural philosophy. - Philosophy of spirit. Its theological result. — Hegel and Kant.- Consequences of the system. Strauss. - Schleiermacher.- Net result. Lesson of the survey now taken. - Testimony of Müller. 111-149 - - - Grand objection to Fichte. Philosophy and religion inseparable. · This more manifest in the a-priori --- - - - Hegelianism. - The absolute idea. - A triplicate process. Compared with - - - - - - - view of Christ. Thinks his criticism true to the spirit of the narrative. - not admissible. - tenable. .- Relation to pantheism. - Goethe. Why chosen. thea. - Wherein his theory works evil. - Faust. - - Goetz von Berlichingen. - - The Fair Saint. — Philina. -- Mignon. — Other characters. — Elec- - - art. The obligations of the artist. - Christianity teaches the only adequate 183-226 The representative name. - Method of treatment. lish literature. - - - - His style. Ethical tendency. - A political reformer. Bibles. Origin of worship. - Sincerity alone essential. - Accepts Goethe's definition of religion. Result. - How his pantheism affects his political Makes him revolutionary. — French Revolution. - Laws and com- pacts not the basis of true government. -Function of representative assem- blies.- - Hates democracy as much as constitutional monarchy.- Eulogy of the Pilgrims. - Mahometanism as good as Puritanism. - No love for free government in any case. — Scorn of moral and social reforms. - Origin of his contempt for democracies. — Negative side of his political creed. His polit- ical and social creed positively stated. - Hero-worship. This the basis of primitive governments. - Urged as the only real basis. - Great men a the- ophany. Carlyle's ideal of a great man. - Plea for his theory of govern- ment. The result of the theory is anarchy.- Hero-worship contrasted with trasted with Carlyle. His excellent temper. Of purer tone than Goethe. - ments of pantheism. — All things are God. — - History. — Literature. - God a - - - - - - Emerson would unsettle all things. No philanthropist. Better than his theory. - Inconsistency recommended.-The good man forced to be a hypocrite. - Transcendentalism not to be judged by Emerson.-Christian faith the grand safeguard. 268-316 What Parkerism finds in Christ. — The Old Testament long since outgrown. His idea of religious progress. -The positive side of Parkerism. — Terms used to designate it. - Parker less original than he - The conception. - The conception alone varies. — Origin of religions. |