Theism and Humanism: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1914Balfour, Arthur James
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Theism and Humanism: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1914
Balfour, Arthur James
Humanism; Naturalism; Theism
III. THE MATERIAL OF THE PRESENT ARGUMENT FOR THEISM:
THE CHARACTER OF THE THEISM TO BE ESTABLISHED 17
IV. WHAT THE ARGUMENT IS NOT. SOME OF ITS LIMITATIONS 23
LECTURE II
I. DESIGN AND SELECTION 28
II. ARGUMENT FROM VALUES. THE COGNITIVE AND THE CAUSAL SERIES 44
PART II
_ÆSTHETIC AND ETHICAL VALUES_
LECTURE III
ÆSTHETIC AND THEISM
I. ÆSTHETIC DESCRIBED 55
II. WHENCE COMES IT? 58
III. VALUES AND THE HIGHER EMOTIONS 63
IV. NATURAL BEAUTY 77
V. ÆSTHETIC OF HISTORY 81
LECTURE IV
ETHICS AND THEISM
I. ETHICS DESCRIBED 95
II. EGOISM, ALTRUISM, AND SELECTION 98
III. SELECTION AND THE HIGHER MORALITY 107
IV. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 119
V. THEISM AND THE COLLISION OF ENDS 122
PART III
_INTELLECTUAL VALUES_
LECTURE V
INTRODUCTION TO PART III
I. RETROSPECT 133
II. REASON AND CAUSATION 134
III. LESLIE STEPHEN, AND LOCKE’S APHORISM 136
IV. REASON AND EMPIRICAL AGNOSTICISM 145
LECTURE VI
PERCEPTION, COMMON SENSE, AND SCIENCE
I. COMMON SENSE AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD 149
II. SCIENCE AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD 153
III. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES 156
IV. PERCEPTION AS A CAUSAL SERIES 160
V. PERCEPTION AS A COGNITIVE ACT 165
VI. AN IRRESISTIBLE ASSUMPTION 170
LECTURE VII
PROBABILITY, CALCULABLE AND INTUITIVE
I. MATHEMATICIANS AND PROBABILITY 175
II. CALCULABLE PROBABILITY 178
III. INTUITIVE PROBABILITY 189
LECTURE VIII
UNIFORMITY AND CAUSATION
I. HABIT, EXPECTATION, INDUCTION 192
II. REGULARITY, CAUSATION 195
III. THE PRINCIPLE OF NEGLIGIBILITY 199
IV. CAUSATION AND FOREKNOWLEDGE 207
LECTURE IX
TENDENCIES OF SCIENTIFIC BELIEF
I. FROM BELIEFS THAT WE MUST HOLD TO BELIEFS THAT WE
ARE INCLINED TO HOLD 217
II. ATOMISM. BELIEFS OF CONSERVATION 220
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