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CONTENTS.

 

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Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

1

CHAPTER I.

The Period of Transition: from Nicolas of Cusa to Descartes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

18

1.

Nicolas of Cusa ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

19

2.

The Revival of Ancient Philosophy and the Opposition to it ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

26

3.

The Italian Philosophy of Nature ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

33

4.

Philosophy of the State and of Law ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

39

5.

Skepticism in France ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

48

6.

German Mysticism ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

51

7.

The Foundation of Modern Physics ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

56

8.

Philosophy in England to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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(a) Bacon's Predecessors ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

63

(b) Bacon ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

64

(c) Hobbes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

71

(d) Lord Herbert of Cherbury ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

79

9.

Preliminary Survey ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

80

 

PART I.

From Descartes to Kant.

CHAPTER II.

Descartes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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1.

The Principles ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

88

2.

Nature ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

97

3.

Man ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

101