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The philosophy of necessity

or, the law of consequences : as applicable to mental, moral and social science. Volume 1

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An edition of The philosophy of necessity (1841)

The philosophy of necessity

or, the law of consequences : as applicable to mental, moral and social science. Volume 1

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Philosophy of Necessity: Or, the Law of Consequences
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS
VOL. I.
Introduction 1
PART I.
MENTAL SCIENCE.
CHAPTER I.
Matter 8
CHAPTER II.
Mind 24
Analysis of the Mental Faculties 34
Animal Feelings or Propensities 36
Social Feelings 47
The Moral Sentiments 50
Intellectual Faculties 68
External Senses 72
The Perceptive Faculties 77
The Reflective, or Reasoning Faculties 89
CHAPTER III.
On the Origin of our Knowledge, and the Adaptation and Relation of the Intellectual Faculties to the External World 95
Belief 101
Truth 118
CHAPTER IV.
On the connexion of Mind with Organization 131
CHAPTER V.
Materialism, Consciousness, Identity, Association 143
PART II.
MORAL SCIENCE.
CHAPTER I.
Philosophical Necessity 158
The Application of Philosophical Necessity to Responsibility, Praise and Blame, Reward and Punishment, Virtue and Vice 176
CHAPTER II.
On the Origin, Objects, and Advantages of Evil 193
Pain considered as the necessary and most effectual Guardian of that system of Organization upon which Happiness depends 197
Pain necessary as a Motive and Stimulus to Action 213
On the Evils consequent upon the Varieties of Condition among Mankind 223
Death 240
CHAPTER III.
The Principles of Morality 252
Moral Obligation 252
Pain and Pleasure 255
Man considered in his Relation to External Objects 262
Man considered in his Relation to his Fellow Man 269
VOL. II.
PART III.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
CHAPTER I.
On the Present Condition of Society 300
Division of Society, Annual Income of the Kingdom, and mode of its Distribution 301
On the Incomes of the Working Classes, and mode of Expenditure of their Weekly Earnings 304
The Condition of the Working Classes 319
CHAPTER II.
On the Measures proposed for the Amelioration of the Condition of the People 339
Governmental Reform 343
Free Trade 347
Colonization and Emigration 365
Education 366
Religion 371
CHAPTER III.
On the Causes of the Poverty of the Working Classes 386
CHAPTER IV.
Social Reform 404
Conclusion 454
Appendix 493

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viii, 299p. ;
Number of pages
299

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OL17873570M
Internet Archive
ThePhilosophyOfNecessityV1
OCLC/WorldCat
65271313

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