physics.--Aristotle's final causes.--Modern science can avoid such
expedients.--Transcendentalism true but inconsequential.--Verbal
ethics.--Spinoza and the Life of Reason.--Modern and classic
sources of inspiration

REASON IN COMMON SENSE

CHAPTER I--THE BIRTH OF REASON Pages 35-47
Existence always has an Order, called Chaos when incompatible with
a chosen good.--Absolute order, or truth, is static, impotent,
indifferent.--In experience order is relative to interests which
determine the moral status of all powers.--The discovered
conditions of reason not its beginning.--The flux first.--Life the
fixation of interests.--Primary dualities.--First
gropings.--Instinct the nucleus of reason.--Better and worse the
fundamental categories

CHAPTER II--FIRST STEPS AND FIRST FLUCTUATIONS Pages 48-63
Dreams before thoughts.--The mind vegetates uncontrolled save by
physical forces.--Internal order supervenes.--Intrinsic pleasure in
existence.--Pleasure a good, but not pursued or remembered unless
it suffuses an object.--Subhuman delights.--Animal living.--Causes
at last discerned.--Attention guided by bodily impulse

CHAPTER III--THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL OBJECTS Pages 64-83
Nature man's home.--Difficulties in conceiving
nature.--Transcendental qualms.--Thought an aspect of life and
transitive.--Perception cumulative and synthetic.--No identical
agent needed.--Example of the sun.--His primitive divinity.--Causes
and essences contrasted.--Voracity of intellect.--Can the
transcendent be known?--Can the immediate be meant?--Is thought a
bridge from sensation to sensation?--_Mens naturaliter
platonica_.--Identity and independence predicated of things

CHAPTER IV--ON SOME CRITICS OF THIS DISCOVERY Pages 84-117
Psychology as a solvent.--Misconceived role of intelligence.--All
criticism dogmatic.--A choice of hypotheses.--Critics disguised
enthusiasts.--Hume's gratuitous scepticism.--Kant's substitute for
knowledge.--False subjectivity attributed to reason.--Chimerical
reconstruction.--The Critique a work on mental
architecture.--Incoherences.--Nature the true system of
conditions.--Artificial pathos in subjectivism.--Berkeley's
algebra of perception.--Horror of physics.--Puerility in
morals.--Truism and sophism.--Reality is the practical made
intelli