| Development of the Human Soul | |
| Book 4 (synthetical) |
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| Laws governing the activity of the soul
— laws according to which the rational principle operates |
| Classification of the laws of
the rational principle in its operation — |
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| The ontological laws followed
by the rational principle in its operation |
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Statement of the supreme law of thought |
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The supreme law expressed in two propositions |
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The law of intuition |
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The law of perception |
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The law of reflection |
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Reflection as abstraction |
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Reflection as integration |
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| Continuation — Derivation of the special ontological laws which govern human thought |
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| Continuation — Special laws — First law: the objectivity of thought |
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| Continuation — Law of synthesism of thought |
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| Second special law: the term of thought is that which is possible |
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| Third special law: the term of thought is a first act |
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| Fourth special law: the term of thought is one |
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| Fifth special law: the term of thought endures |
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| Sixth special law: the term of total, complex thought can never be indefinite |
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| Seventh special law: the term
of complex thought is something finite |
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| The ontological laws which govern practical reason in general |
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| Continuation — The supreme law of practical reason: 'Acknowledge ens' |
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Statement of the supreme law |
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Explanation and demonstration of the supreme law |
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The moral freedom of practical reason |
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Specific difference between theoretical and practical acts of reason |
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Total thought and abstract thought
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Application of the supreme rule to
the different generic acts of theoretical reason in relationship to practical
reason; first, to intuition — |
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Continuation — The law inclining human beings to every real ens |
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Perception considered relative to practical reason — The law of moral order |
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Continuation — The object of every moral act is the infinite |
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Reflection as an act of practical reason |
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| The special ontological laws of
practical reason |
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| The synthesism of practical
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| The second special ontological law of practical reason: its object is that which is possible |
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Practical reason has as its term the essence of entia in relationship to the essence's realisation |
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Practical reason has as its law adhesion to an harmonious term |
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| The third special law of practical reason: practical reason has an intelligent substance as its term |
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| The psychological laws of the rational principle corresponding to the ontological laws in general |
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| The first psychological law: rational inertia |
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| Psychological inertia can be reconciled with the various actions of the soul through the law of spontaneity |
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How the spontaneity of the rational principle is aroused |
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Psychological development described |
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| Second psychological law: limitation and concentration of attention |
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| Third psychological law: the absence of consciousness |
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| Fourth psychological law: knowledge obtained through affirmation or denial (word) |
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| Corollary on the classification of human cognitions |
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| Summary |
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| The cosmological laws proper to
the rational principle in general — |
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| The cosmological law of motion |
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The two parts of the law of motion |
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The first part of the cosmological law of motion: what is real as term of the rational principle is that which arouses the attention of the principle and leads it to acts of subjective knowledge |
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The second part of the law of motion: attention and thought are kept lively through the stability of what is real |
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| The cosmological law of harmony
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The law of harmony to which the rational soul is subject is cosmological in so far as it proceeds from the intrinsic order of animality |
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The law of harmony according to which the sensitive soul operates is mostly psychological |
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The distinction between the psychological and the cosmological in the law of harmony governingthe sensitive soul |
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Does the variation in the feel of a sensation result from cosmological or psychological laws? |
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| Continuation of the
cosmological law of harmony |
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The fitting action of entia — The first law |
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The fitting action of entia — The second law |
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The fitting action of entia — The third law |
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Conclusion to the cosmological law of harmony |
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| The psychological laws of the rational principle which correspond to the cosmological laws in general |
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| The psychological laws of
speculative reason which correspond to |
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| Continuation — The law of subjective synthesis |
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| Continuation — The law of subjective analogy |
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| Psychological laws
corresponding to the cosmological laws directing practical reason — |
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Human life: direct and reflective |
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The limitation of the radical power of the soul sometimes suppresses, sometimes limits reflection |
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Human life can never be entirely reflective; it remains partly direct |
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When we reason, reflection is concerned with the last link in rational activity, not on previous links: this explains hidden reasoning |
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Continuation — Synthetical reasoning |
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Continuation — Prudence in wise people depends on synthetical reasoning |
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The operations of the rational principle are sometimes aroused and directed by a hidden principle |
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The hidden part of our rational activity provides occasion for error and immorality |
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How in the human mind a secret, spontaneous operation is carried out which orders our cognitions without any realisation or free co-operation on our part |
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Continuation — Other unconscious mental activity |
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Granted a suitable occasion, things hidden in the spirit sometimes manifest themselves with great impetus and clarity |
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Why we pass beyond an image to the ens it represents |
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| Psychological laws
corresponding to the cosmological laws |
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Law of regularity |
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Regularity of operation proceeding from the natural order constituting the agent |
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Regularity of operation resulting from the mode of spontaneity |
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Regularity of activity proceeding from the unity of the agent |
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Continuation — Regularity proceeding from laws of the imagination |
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Regularity arising from the rational principle |
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Continuation — Does the sensitive principle enjoy the numerical proportion present in its movements? |
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The different rules applied by the rational principle to regular multiplicity uncovered in the multiplicity proper to various kinds of simultaneous regularities |
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Harmony in succession |
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