Philosophy


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1 The definition and scope of philosophy.
2 The relation of philosophy to theology or religion.
3 The relation of philosophy to mathematics.
4 The relation of philosophy to experimental or empirical science.
5 The relation of philosophy to myth, poetry, and history.
6 The divisions of philosophy.
7 The distinction between theoretical or speculative and practical or moral philosophy, the distinction between natural and civil philosophy.
8 The branches of speculative philosophy, the divisions of natural philosophy.
9 The nature and branches of practical or moral philosophy, economics, ethics, politics, jurisprudence, poetics or the theory of art.
10 The method of philosophy.
11 The foundations of philosophy in experience and common sense.
12 The philosopher's appeal to first principles and to definitions.
13 The processes of philosophical thought, induction, intuition, definition, demonstration, reasoning, analysis, and synthesis.
14 The methodological reformation of philosophy, the role of language in philosophy.
15 The uses of philosophy.
16 Diverse conceptions of the aim, function, and value of philosophy.
17 The philosophic mode of life, contemplation and happiness.
18 Philosophy as a moral discipline, the consolation of philosophy.
19 The social role of philosophy, the philosopher and the statesman, the philosopher king.
20 The character and training of the philosopher, the difficulty of being a philosopher.
21 Praise and dispraise of the philosopher and his work.
22 The philosopher as a man of science or wisdom, the love and search for truth.
23 The philosopher as a man of opinion, sophistry and dogmatism, idle disputation, perpetual controversy.
24 The philosopher as a man of reason, the limits of reason, its supplementation by experience or faith.
25 The philosopher as a man of theory or vision, neglect of the practical, withdrawal from the affairs of men and the marketplace.
26 Observations on the history of philosophy, the lives of the philosophers in relation to their thought.


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