A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Modern PhilosophyCushman, Herbert Ernest
Philosophy
A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Modern Philosophy
Cushman, Herbert Ernest
Philosophy -- History
of the Enlightenment, 142.
Contiguity,
association of, 192–194.
Continuity,
law of, 129.
Contradictions,
the world a world of, according to Hegel, 321, 327, 328, 335;
of experience, according to Herbart, 334, 335.
Copernicus, Nikolaus,
7, 32–34.
Cosmic,
unity, of Hegel, 322–326;
law, of Hegel, 326–328.
Counter-Revolution, the,
17.
Criticism,
the Enlightenment a period of, 138;
Kant’s method of, 239.
Cusanus, Nicolas (Nicolas of Cusa),
23–25.
Darwin, Charles Robert,
his _Origin of Species_ formulated most fully the Evolution
movement, 3, 362.
Decentralization of Europe and of philosophy,
iv, 12, 13.
Deduction,
in the Natural Science period, 19, 21, 35;
defined, 35 n.;
use of, according to Galileo, 37;
according to Bacon, 40, 46;
according to Descartes, 70, 72, 73;
use made of, by the followers of Descartes, 81.
Deed-act,
of Fichte, 293.
Deism,
and Hume, 200;
of Voltaire, 210.
Deists,
the English, 141, 164–166;
the German, 142.
Descartes, René,
31, 35;
compared with Hobbes, 48, 49;
the mental conflict in, 65, 66;
life and philosophical writings of, 66, 67;
the two conflicting influences upon the thought of, 67–69;
the method of, 69, 70;
the great contribution of, an absolute principle, 70;
induction, provisional doubt, ultimate certainty of consciousness,
according to, 70–72;
deduction, implications of consciousness, according to, 70, 72, 73;
his proofs of the existence of God, 73–75;
the reality of matter, according to, 75–77;
his view of the relation of God to the world, 77;
of God to matter, 77, 78;
of God to minds, 78;
of mind and body, 78–80;
influence of, 80, 81;
relation of the Occasionalists and Spinoza to, 81–84;
his influence on Spinoza, 87;
his influence on Locke, 145, 146, 152.
Determinism,
53.
Dewing, A. S.,
_Introduction to Modern Philosophy_, iv, 8 n., 332 n.
Diderot, Denis,
211.
Differential calculus,
discovered by Leibnitz, 112, 114, 119.
Discoveries.
_See_ Inventions.
Dogmatism,
defined, 187.
Doubt,
provisional, of Descartes, 70–72.
Dualism,
Cartesian, of mind and matter, assumed in the Enlightenment, 135;
of Berkeley, 179;
formed the background of Kant’s thought, 232.
Dualists,
174 n.
Duty,
according to Fichte, 289–295.
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