PART I.
INTRODUCTION
SECTION 1.
Preliminary Definitions
1. Being and Monism
2. Whole and Part
3. The Absolute
SECTION 2.
Historical Affiliations of Teleological Monism
1. The Monism of Plato
2. Later Monistic Arguments
3. Hegel’s Argument
4. Teleological Monism
5. Spinoza
6. Kant
7. Royce
8. Conclusion
SECTION 3.
Monism and Present Controversy
1. The Persistence of Monism
2. Pluralistic Objections
3. Value of Monism
4. Monism Compatible with Diversity?
5. God and Human Freedom
6. Monism and experience. W. James
7. How does mind unify?
8. Alleged Abstractness of Ultimate Universals
9. Value as a self-differentiating Principle
10. The Limits of Philosophy
SECTION 4.
Assumptions or Principles of Method
1. Nature of a Philosophical Assumption
2. Inconsistency the Test of Falsity
3. Realism and Certitude
4. Assumptions Adopted
a. Consistency
b. Meaning of “Valuation”
c. Transferability of Ideas and their truth
d. Indefinabilism rejected
SECTION 5.
Plan and Division of the “Outline”
1. Division is by Categories
2. Order of Succession
3. Ultimate Basis of Knowledge
4. “Being” and “Existence”
5. Independence of the Arguments
6. “Outline” Form of the Argument
PART II.
THE ARGUMENT
SECTION 5A.
Prefatory Word to Sections 6-9
SECTION 6.
The Argument from the Category of Being
Conclusion
Final Summary
SECTION 7.
Individuality
Whole and Part
Conclusion
SECTION 8.
Quality
Necessity and Conditions of a “Form of Forms”
Conclusion
SECTION 9.
Relations
A. External Relations
Conclusion to Section 9A
B. Internal Relations
Conclusion to Section 9
SECTION 10.
Space and Time
1. Space and Time involve an ultimate Unity
2. The Ultimate Standard of Magnitude
3. Space and Time as a whole conceivable Idealistically only
4. The world — whole as including minds
5. Alexander’s System
Conclusion
SECTION 11.
Knowledge
1, 2, & 3. Knowledge not definable objectively
4 & 5. Objects essentially objects of thought
6. Qualities or meanings relative to mind
7. Knowledge is Immediate
Conclusion
SECTION 12.
Value
1. The Good not describable in neutral terms
2. The nature of value
3. Aesthetic valuation objective
4. Valuation the key to knowledge
McTaggart’s Absolute
5. Value as social the key to the
Problem of One and Many
6. Evil
Conclusion
Additional note on Evil
SECTION 13.
Perfection (The Ontological Argument)
Kant
The Argument.
Phase 1. Self-Existence
Phase 2. Ideal Personality implies Self-Existence
Phase 3. All thought implies the Ideal Personality
Conclusion
SECTION 14.
Conclusion
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