A Biographical History of Philosophy

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Preface
Introduction
1. Speculations on the nature of the universe
2. Speculations on the creation of the universe, and on the origins of knowledge
3. Intellectual crisis
4. A new era opened by the invention of a new method
5. Partial adoption of the Socratic Method
6. Complete adoption and application of the Socratic Method
7. Philosophy again reduced to a system
8. Second crisis of Greek philosophy
9. Philosophy allies itself with faith
10. Appendix
Part II: Preface
Introduction
1. Foundation of the inductive method
2. Foundation of the deductive method
3. Philosophy reduced to a question of psychology
4. The subjective nature of knowledge being established leads to idealism
5. The arguments of idealism carried out into scepticism
6. The origin of knowledge reduced to sensation by the confusion of thought with feeling
7. Second crisis - idealism, scepticism, and materialism producing the reaction of common sense
8. Recurrence to the fundamental question respecting the origin of knowledge
9. The demonstration of the subjectivity of knowledge once more leads to idealism
10 Objective idealism
11. The third form of idealism, viz., absolute idealism
12. Final crisis in the history of philosophy, and definite establishment of positivism
Conclusion.