Table of Contents

Volume 1: Preface; Introductions to Hume's Treatise of Human Nature: 1. General introduction; 2. Introduction to the moral part of Hume's Treatise; Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. G. H. Lewes: their Application of the Doctrine of Evolution to Thought: 1. Mr. Spencer on the relation of subject and object; 2. Mr. Spencer on the independence of matter; 3. Mr. Lewes' account of experience; 4. Mr. Lewes' account of the 'social medium'; 5. An answer to Mr. Hodgson. Volume 2: Preface; Lectures on the Philosophy of Kant: 1. The Critique of Pure Reason; 2. The metaphysics of ethics; Lectures on Logic: 1. The logic of the formal logicians; 2. The logic of J. S. Mill; On the different senses of 'freedom' as applied to will and to the moral progress of man; Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation: 1. The grounds of political obligation; 2. Spinoza; 3. Hobbes; 4. Locke; 5. Rousseau; 6. Sovereignty and the general will; 7. Will, not force, is the basis of the state; 8. Has the citizen rights against the state?; 9. Private rights. The right to life and liberty; 10. The right of the state over the individual in war; 11. The right of the state to punish; 12. The right of the state to promote morality; 13. The right of the state in regard to property; 14. The right of the state in regard to the family; 15. Rights and virtues. Volume 3: Preface; Memoir; The force of circumstances; The influence of civilisation on genius; The value and influence of works of fiction in modern times; The philosophy of Aristotle; Popular philosophy in its relation to life; Review of E. Caird, Philosophy of Kant; Review of J. Caird, Introduction to the philosophy of religion; Review of J. Watson, Kant and his English critics; Fragment on immortality; Essay on Christian dogma; The conversion of Paul (extract from lectures on the Epistle to the Galatians); Justification by faith (extract from lectures on the Epistle to the Romans); The incarnation (extract from lectures on the Fourth Gospel); Fragment of an address on Romans x.8, 'The word is nigh thee'; Address on I Corinthians v. 7,8, 'The witness of God'; Address on 2 Corinthians v.7, 'Faith'; Four lectures on the English Commonwealth; Lecture on 'Liberal legislation and freedom of contract'; Lecture on 'The grading of secondary schools'; Two lectures on 'The elementary school system of England'; Lecture on 'The work to be done by the new Oxford High School for Boys'.

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The writings, unpublished papers and lectures of one of England's most influential nineteenth-century philosophers, published 1885–8.