Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind

Table of Contents

contents Introduction ix A Note on the Text xxix Acknowledgments xxxi A Compend of Logic 1 Dissertation on the Origin of Philosophy and Its Principal Founders and Exponents 3 Prolegomena 9 part i. On Apprehension 11 part ii. On the Noetic Judgment and the Proposition 23 part iii. On Discourse 31 Appendix on Topics, Fallacies, and Method 49 A Synopsis of Metaphysics Comprehending Ontology and Pneumatology 57 The Arguments of the Chapters 59 part i. On Being and the Common Attributes of Things 65 chapter 1. On Being (De Ente) 65 chapter 2. On the Axioms of Metaphysics 74 chapter 3. On the Properties of Being 78 vii viii contents chapter 4. On the Principal Divisions of Being 87 chapter 5. On the Categories and the General Properties of Being 101 part ii. On the Human Mind 111 chapter 1. On the Powers of the Mind, and First on the Understanding 111 chapter 2. On the Will 126 chapter 3. Whether Spirit Is a Different Thing from Body 138 chapter 4. On the Union of the Mind with the Body, and on a Separate State 145 part iii. On God 151 chapter 1. In Which It Is Shown That There Is a God 152 chapter 2. On the Natural Virtues of God 162 chapter 3. On the Divine Virtues Concerned with Understanding 168 chapter 4. On the Will of God 173 chapter 5. On the Operations of God 180 On the Natural Sociability of Mankind 189 Inaugural Oration 191 Bibliography 217 Index 225 ...