Society And its Purpose

Book 4 -

Contents

CHAPTER 1	The three states of the human spirit: pleasant, content, happy
CHAPTER 2	The personal element in contentment
CHAPTER 3	The judgment which produces contentment constitutes EUDAIMONOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS in human beings
CHAPTER 4	The judgment which makes us content is an habitual, not merely actual judgment, producing a STATE of the human spirit
CHAPTER 5	The actions carried out by the human spirit in establishing its own contentment
CHAPTER 6	The objects which, because of their nature as real good, can contribute to the production of human contentment
CHAPTER 7	Corresponding evils
CHAPTER 8	Whether evil can be balanced and compensated by good
CHAPTER 9	Common errors about the total good existing in a given society
CHAPTER 10	Continuation
CHAPTER 11	Does real good necessarily produce contentment of spirit? — The distinction between absolute and relative good
CHAPTER 12	*The capacity* of human desire**
CHAPTER 13	Satisfied and unsatisfied capacity
CHAPTER 14	Errors of the sensists in rejecting the different degrees of capacity and contentment
CHAPTER 15	The two political systems of RESISTANCE and MOVEMENT
CHAPTER 16.	The most frequent errors of supporters of both systems
CHAPTER 17.	Continuation — The law governing the progress of the human race
CHAPTER 18.	Continuation — Another error of politicians who support movement
CHAPTER 19.	Continuation — The third system, in addition to the systems of resistance and movement
CHAPTER 20	Continuation — Does an increase in needs greater than the means for satisfying them obtain always and necessarily the effect claimed by political theorists who support movement?
CHAPTER 21.	The system of movement as it effects Christian societies
CHAPTER 22.	Continuation — The CAPACITY proper to Christian nations is infinite
CHAPTER 23.	Continuation
CHAPTER 24.	Continuation — How the infinite capacity of desire can endure without any determined object
CHAPTER 25.	Continuation The different states of unhappiness in the human spirit are reduced to a single formula
CHAPTER 26.	A description of the various states of unhappiness in which the human spirit often finds itself
CHAPTER 27.	Continuation — Outlines of a map of the human heart
CHAPTER 28.	The hierarchy of the unsatisfiable capacities of the spirit
CHAPTER 29.	Political harm arising from unsatisfied capacities
CHAPTER 30.	The juncture between virtue and happiness
CHAPTER 31.	Error in the political system of resistance
CHAPTER 32	Continuation — The natural movement of society
CHAPTER 33.	Continuation
CHAPTER 34.	The objects of desire
CHAPTER 35.	The law governing the development of the FACULTIES OF THOUGHT and ABSTRACTION
CHAPTER 36.	The influence of governments on the lawful and unlawful desires of subjects
CHAPTER 37.	The necessity of politico-moral statistics

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