Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind: To which are Added, An Essay on Quantity, and An Analysis of Aristotle's Logic ...

T. Tegg, 1827 - 676 pages

ESSAYS ON THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS OF MAN ESSAY I PRELIMINARY CHAP 1 Explication of words	1

Principles taken for granted	15

Of hypotheses	21

Of analogy	24

Of the proper means of knowing the operations of the mind	26

Of the difficulty of attending to the operations of our own minds	29

Division of the powers of the mind	32

Of social operations of mind	34

OF JUDGMENT	259

Of first principles in general	289

OF REASONING	347

OF TASTE	368

AN ESSAY ON QUANTITY	396

ANALYSIS OF ARISTOTLES LOGIC	402

ESSAYS ON THE ACTIVE POWERS OF THE HUMAN MIND	440

active power?	455

Of the organs of sense	37

Of the impressions on the organs nerves and brain	39

Hypothesis concerning the nerves and brain	41

False conclusions drawn from the impressions before mentioned	47

Of perception	53

What it is to account for a phenomenon in nature	57

Sentiments of philosophers about the perceptions of external objects and first of the theory of Father Malebranche	59

Of the common theory of perception and of the sentiments of the Peripatetics and of Des Cartes	64

The sentiments of Mr Locke	74

The sentiments of Bishop Berkeley	81

Bishop Berkeleys sentiments of the nature of ideas	90

The sentiments of Mr Hume	96

The sentiments of Anthony Arnauld	99

Reflections on the common theory of ideas	102

Account of the system of Leibnitz	113

Of sensation	117

Of the objects of perception and first of primary and secondary qualities	122

Of other objects of perception	129

Of matter and of space	133

Of the evidence of sense and of belief in general	139

OF MEMORY	158

OF CONCEPTION	186

OF ABSTRACTION	225

ESSAY II OF THE WILL	468

OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ACTION	486

PART II	498

PART III	538

OF THE LIBERTY OF MORAL AGENTS Page CHAP I The notions of moral liberty and necessity stated	567

Of the words cause and effect action and active power	570

Causes of the ambiguity of those words	573

Of the influence of motives	578

Liberty consistent with government	584

First argument for liberty	588

Second argument	594

Third argument	596

Of arguments for necessity	599

The same subject	605

Of the permission of evil	609

OF MORALS CHAP I Of the first principles of morals	616

Of systems of morals	621

Of systems of natural jurisprudence	624

Whether an action deserving moral approbation must be done with the belief of its being morally good	628

Whether justice be a natural or an artificial virtue	635

Of the nature and obligation of a contract	653

VIL That moral approbation implies a real judgment	663

Pealkiri	Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind: To which are Added, An Essay on Quantity, and An Analysis of Aristotle's Logic ...
Autor	Thomas Reid
Publisher	T. Tegg, 1827
Original from	the Bavarian State Library
Digitized	10 okt. 2008
Length	676 pages

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