The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart/Volume 1

CONTENTS. DISSERTATION. progress of metaphysical, ethical, and political philosophy. Page Preface, containing some Critical Remarks on the Discourse prefixed to the French Encyclopédie, 1 PART FIRST.—Intoduction, 23 Chapter I. Progress of Philosophy from the Revival of Letters to the publication of Bacon's Philosophical Works, 25 Chapter II. Progress of Philosophy from the publication of Bacon's Philosophical Works till that of the Essay on Human Understanding. Sect. 1 Progress of Philosophy in England during this period.— Bacon, 63 Hobbes, 79 Antagonists of Hobbes, 85 Sect. 2. Progress of Philosophy in France during the Seventeenth Century.— Montaigne.—Charron.—La Rouchefoucauld, 98 Descartes.—Gassendi.—Malebranche, 112 Sect. 3. Progress of Philosophy during the Seventeenth Century in some parts of Europe not included in the preceding Review, 170 PART SECOND.—Intoduction, 203 Progress of Metaphysics during the Eighteenth Century.— Sect. 1 Historical and Critical Review of the Philosophical Works of Locke and Leibnitz.—Locke, 206 Sect. 2. Continuation of the Review of Locke and Leibnitz.—Leibnitz, 252 Sect. 3. Of the Metaphysical Speculations of Newton and Clarke.— Digression with respect to the System of Spinoza, Collins, and Jonathan Edwards.—Anxiety of both to reconcile the scheme of Necessity with Man's Moral Agency.—Departure of some later Necessitarians from their views, 287 Sect. 4. Of some authors who have contributed, by their Critical or Historical Writings, to diffuse a taste for Metaphysical Studies.—Bayle.—Fontenelle.—Addison.—Metaphysical Works of Berkeley, 313 Sect. 5. Hartleian School, 352 Sect. 6. Condillac, and other French Metaphysicians of a late date, 358 Sect. 7. Kant, and other Metaphysicians of the New German School, 389 Sect. 8. Metaphysical Philosophy of Scotland, 427 PART THIRD.— Progress of Ethical and Political Philosophy during the Eighteenth Century.— Chapter.—(Fragment in conclusion.)—Progress, Tendencies, Results, 487 Notes and Illustrations, To Part I., 529 To Part II., 550 To Part III., 614 Supplement, 615 Index, 619 This work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse

The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart/Volume 1

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