nity 302
Sect. 146. The Religion of Mysticism 303
Sect. 147. The Religion of Individual Cooperation with God 304

CHAPTER X. ABSOLUTE REALISM 306

Sect. 148. The Philosopher's Task, and the Philosopher's Object,
or the Absolute 306
Sect. 149. The Eleatic Conception of Being 309
Sect. 150. Spinoza's Conception of Substance 311
Sect. 151. Spinoza's Proof of God, the Infinite Substance. The
Modes and the Attributes 312
Sect. 152. The Limits of Spinoza's Argument for God 315
Sect. 153. Spinoza's Provision for the Finite 317
Sect. 154. Transition to Teleological Conceptions 317
Sect. 155. Early Greek Philosophers not Self-critical 319
Sect. 156. Curtailment of Philosophy in the Age of the Sophists 319
Sect. 157. Socrates and the Self-criticism of the Philosopher 321
Sect. 158. Socrates's Self-criticism a Prophecy of Truth 323
Sect. 159. The Historical Preparation for Plato 324
Sect. 160. Platonism: Reality as the Absolute Ideal or Good 326
Sect. 161. The Progression of Experience toward God 329
Sect. 162. Aristotle's Hierarchy of Substances in Relation to
Platonism 332
Sect. 163. The Aristotelian Philosophy as a Reconciliation of
Platonism and Spinozism 335
Sect. 164. Leibniz's Application of the Conception of Development
to the Problem of Imperfection 336
Sect. 165. The Problem of Imperfection Remains Unsolved 338
Sect. 166. Absolute Realism in Epistemology. Rationalism 339
Sect. 167. The Relation of Thought and its Object in Absolute
Realism 340
Sect. 168. The Stoic and Spinozistic Ethics of Necessity 342
Sect. 169. The Platonic Ethics of Perfection 344
Sect. 170. The Religion of Fulfilment and the Religion of
Renunciation 346

CHAPTER XI. ABSOLUTE IDEALISM