On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical

Name: On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical
Author: Whewell, William

Whewell, William

Philosophy -- History; Science -- History; Science -- Philosophy

CHAP. XXX. * THE THEOLOGICAL BEARING OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISCOVERY.
           1-4. How can necessary truths be actual?
          5, 6. Small extent of necessary truth.
             7. How did things come to be as they are?
             8. View of the Theist.
          9-12. Is this Platonism?
            13. Idea of Time.
        14, 15. Ideas of Force and Matter.
            16. Creation of Matter.
            17. Platonic Ideas.
         18-21. Idea of Kind.
            22. Idea of Substance.
            23. Idea of Final Cause.
        24, 25. Human immeasurably inferior to Divine.
            26. Science advances towards the Divine Ideas.
            27. Recapitulation.

  CHAP. XXXI. * MAN'S KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
          1, 2. Opinions.
             3. From Nature we learn something of God.
           4-6. Though but little.
          7, 8. From ourselves we learn something concerning God.
          9-11. Objections answered.
            12. Creation.
            13. End of the World.
            14. Moral and Theological views enter.

  CHAP. XXXII. * ANALOGIES OF PHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY.
          1, 2. Idealization of Facts and Realization of Ideas;
          3, 4. Both imperfect.
          5, 6. Divine Ideas perfect.
           7-9. Realization of Divine Love.
         10-13. Realization of Divine Justice.
            14. Analogy of Physical and Moral Philosophy.
        15, 16. Supernatural Beginning, Middle, and End indicated.
            17. Suggestion of a Future State.
         18-20. Confirmation from the Intellect of Man.
            21. From the Moral Nature of Man.


  APPENDIX.

                                                   PAGE

  APPEND. A. OF THE PLATONIC THEORY OF IDEAS        403
          B. ON PLATO'S SURVEY OF THE SCIENCES      417
         BB. ON PLATO'S NOTION OF DIALECTIC         429
          C. OF THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS ACCORDING
                 TO PLATO                           440
          D. CRITICISM OF ARISTOTLE'S ACCOUNT OF
                 INDUCTION                          449
          E. ON THE FUNDAMENTAL ANTITHESIS OF
                 PHILOSOPHY                         462
          F. REMARKS ON A REVIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHY
                 OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES          482
          G. ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF HYPOTHESES
                 IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE          492
          H. ON HEGEL'S CRITICISM OF NEWTON'S
                 PRINCIPIA                          504
               Appendix to the Memoir on Hegel's Criticism
                 of Newton's Principia              513
          K. DEMONSTRATION THAT ALL MATTER IS
                 HEAVY                              522




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