Fundamental Philosophy, Vol. 1 (of 2)Balmes, Jaime Luciano
Philosophy
Fundamental Philosophy, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Balmes, Jaime Luciano
Philosophy, Spanish
II. Extension not Perceptible as the Direct and Immediate
Object of Sensations 345
III. Scientific Fruitfulness of the Idea of Extension 348
IV. Reality of Extension 357
V. Geometrical Exactness Realized in Nature 360
VI. Remarks on Extension 365
VII. Space.--Nothing 369
VIII. Descartes and Leibnitz on Space 375
IX. Opinion of those who attribute to Space a Nature
distinct from Bodies 380
X. Opinion of those who hold Space to be the Immensity of
God 382
XI. Fenelon's Opinion 386
XII. What Space consists in 391
XIII. New Difficulties 396
XIV. Another Important Consequence 400
XV. Illusion of Fixed Points in Space 403
XVI. Observations on Kant's Opinion 407
XVII. Inability of Kant's Doctrine to solve the Problem of
the Possibility of Experience 415
XVIII. The Problem of Sensible Experience 418
XIX. Extension abstracted from Phenomena 421
XX. Are there Absolute Magnitudes? 427
XXI. Pure Intelligibility of the Extended World 432
XXII. Infinite Divisibility 436
XXIII. Unextended Points 439
XXIV. A Conjecture on the Transcendental Notion of Extension 442
XXV. Harmony of the Real, Phenomenal, and Ideal Orders 446
XXVI. Character of the Relations of the Real Order to the
Phenomenal 450
XXVII. Whether every Thing must be in some Place 452
XXVIII. Contingency of Corporeal Relations 459
XXIX. Solution of two Difficulties 462
XXX. Passive Sensibility 466
XXXI. Possibility of a greater Sphere in active Sensibility 469
XXXII. Possibility of the Penetration of Bodies 480
XXXIII. A Triumph of Religion in the Field of Philosophy 483
XXXIV. Conclusion and Summing up 489
NOTES TO BOOK FIRST 495
NOTE TO BOOK SECOND 514
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