- Egyptian specula- tion. Primitive monotheism. - The Chinese. The Greeks. —' from Egypt. - Conclusion of Naville. — Origin of Fetichism. - The Totem of - - of religious thought sketched. - Spinoza's system the receptacle. - Claims Definition of pantheism. - How it differs from theism and atheism. - Wherein 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 . — The Cartesian method aids the tendency to pantheism. - The tendency further strengthened by his denial of second causes. - Spinoza's butes of substance. - Bearing on question of immortality. to the new movement. - The Leibnitz-Wolfian philosophy. — Kant's earlier - Relation of the reason to the understanding. - Space and time forms of the reason. The categories of the understanding. — Ideas of the faculty. Function of the practical reason. - - Jacobi. His mystical tendency. - Argues against 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 Schelling reaches the position - -- of the pantheist. His system described. - Agreement with Spinoza. - - - - - Philosophy and religion inseparable. - This more manifest in the a-priori - Hegelianism. The absolute idea. - - - - - A triplicate process.- Compared with - - - - - - traced to Hegel. - Christianity triumphant. - - 150-182 LECTURE V. THE CULTURE WHICH PANTHEISM LEGITIMATES. - A feature of modern thought. Spontaneity. - Authority. - New theory un- - - -False theory of morals. Popularity of Goetz. - Sorrows of Werther.- Its influence. Origin of the work. — Complaints of his friends. — Wilhelm Meister. The Fair Saint.-Philina. -- Mignon. - Other characters. — Elec- tive affinities. - Natalia and Wilhelm. - Goethe's theoretical views carried into his life. His faults not to be passed over. - Had noble traits. - Was not a patriot. - Goethe not consistent with his theory of culture. have been better as a man if more inconsistent. Allowance to be made to art. The obligations of the artist. - Christianity teaches the only adequate The representative name. Method of treatment. - Carlyle's position in Eng- - - - His doctrine of necessity. — Of space and time. — Religious views.- 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 227-267 Individualism. Represented by Emerson. - Method of treatment. - - - - - God a - Knowledge of ments of pantheism. - All things are God. — History. — Literature. - - - - - - - LECTURE VIII. THEISM WITH A PANTHEISTIC DRIFT. Theodore Parker. - Disliked to be called an infidel. - - - Unitarians denounced for Did not bow to Christ as of Parkerism. - Terms used to designate it. - Parker less original than he - |