The Forces Present in A Priori Reasoning
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The Forces Present in A Priori Reasoning
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| CHAPTER 1. | What we cmean by a priori reasoning |
| CHAPTER 2. | The starting point of human knowledge according to some thinkers of the German school |
| Article 1. | The purpose of this Chapter | |
| Article 2. | The principal difference between our unique form and the forms assigned by some modern thinkers to the intelligent spirit | |
| Article 3. | The starting point of Kant's philosophy | |
| Article 4. | The starting point of Fichte's philosophy | |
| Article 5. | Schelling's starting point | |
| Article 6. | Bouterweck's starting point | |
| Article 7. | Bardilli's starting point |
| CHAPTER 3. | The starting point of Victor Cousin's philosophy |
| Article 1. | The system expounded | |
| Article 2. | It is impossible to begin from Cousin's threefold perception |
| .§1. | It is not necessary that the absolute, infinite cause be perceived in the first perception | |
| .§2. | It is not necessary for us to perceive ourselves intellectually when we perceive the world | |
| .§3. | The first, essential intellection from which every reasoning moves forward is that of being in all its universality |
| CHAPTER 4. | Pure a priori reasoning does not lead us to know anything in the order of subsistent, finite beings |
| CHAPTER 5. | A priori reasoning leads us to logical principles that appertain to the order of ideal beings |
| Article 1. | Definitions | |
| Article 2. | The extension of pure a priori knowledge |
| Article 3. | The extension of a priori knowledge |
| CHAPTER 6. | The underlying principle of the whole of this work is confirmed by a new argument: the idea of being is of such a nature that human beings cannot form it for themselves by abstraction |
| CHAPTER 7. | Pure a priori reasoning leads to knowledge of the existence of something infinite, God |
| Article 1. | How to reason without the use of any datum outside the idea of being | |
| Article 2. | Hints about an a priori demonstration of the existence of God |