Society And its Purpose - Book 3

Society And its Purpose

Book 3

HOW THE PROXIMATE,
BUT THEORETICALLY UNDETERMINED END OF CIVIL SOCIETY
BECOMES FACTUALLY DETERMINED

Contents

CHAPTER 1	The undetermined, proximate end of society is determined in fact by the practical reason of the masses, and by the speculative reason of individuals
CHAPTER 2	The soundness and corruption of the practical reason of the masses prior to the institution of civil society
CHAPTER 3	The soundness and corruption of the practical reason of the masses during the four stages of civil society
CHAPTER 4	A special case: a civil society passes immediately from the stage of existence to that of wealth without passing through the stage of power
CHAPTER 5	The quantity of intelligence required to move the practical reason of the masses in the four social stages
CHAPTER 6	A provident law governing the dispersion and vicissitudes of peoples
CHAPTER 7	Summary
CHAPTER 8	How the error committed by the masses in determining the end of civil society depends for its degree of harm on the form of government
CHAPTER 9	The power of individual speculative reason in leading civil societies to their legitimate end — Individuals who prepare the way for the foundation of civil governments
CHAPTER 10	Continuation — Founders and first legislators
CHAPTER 11	The power possessed by the reason of individuals in the reformation of nations which have arrived at the ultimate stage of corruption
CHAPTER 12	Continuation - Conquerors
CHAPTER 13	Continuation - the second legislators; philosophers
CHAPTER 14	The various ways in which societies perish
CHAPTER 15	How Christianity brought back to life irremediably lost civil societies
CHAPTER 16	Morality restored to the world together with intelligence
CHAPTER 17	How Christianity saved human societies by directing itself to individuals, not to the masses
CHAPTER 18	How Christianity assisted humanity's temporal interests by detaching humanity from them
CHAPTER 19	The political criterion drawn from the final end of civil societies concords with the teaching of Christianity
CHAPTER 20	The relationship between the two political criteria which depend on the end of society

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