Glenn, Introduction to Philosophy, 1944
Introduction to Philosophy
What philosophy is, what it studies, how it relates to the other sciences and to faith, and why it is the necessary preparation for theology.
Glenn, Introduction to Philosophy
32 articlesIntroduction
The name, definition, object, importance, identification, and division of philosophy.
Part First The Origin and Growth of Philosophy
Chapter 1 The Beginnings of Philosophy
Chapter 2 The Development of Philosophy
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The Philosophy of Socrates and Plato
The critical question, and the doctrines of Socrates and Plato as a developing philosophy.
The Philosophy of Aristotle
Aristotle, prince of philosophers: his Logic, Physics, Metaphysics, and Ethics.
The Course of Philosophy after Aristotle
The later Greek schools, the syncretizing systems, and the emergence of Patristic philosophy.
Chapter 3 The Perfecting of Philosophy
Chapter 4 The Course of Philosophy to Our Times
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Transition from Medieval to Modern Philosophy
The fading of Scholasticism, humanism and the revivalist philosophies, and the rise of naturalism.
The Philosophy of the Last Three Centuries
The philosophers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, and the Scholastic revival.
Part Second The Questions of Philosophy
Chapter 1 The Logical Question
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The Operations of the Mind
Apprehending, judging, and reasoning as the three operations of the mind.
Ideas and Terms
The idea in its comprehension and extension, its expression in the term, and its clarification.
Judgments and Propositions
Judging and the judgment, the proposition and its types, and the properties of propositions.
Reasoning and Argument
Reasoning, its expression in the syllogism, and the laws of argument.
Chapter 2 The Critical Question
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Truth and Certitude
Ontological, logical, and moral truth, and the states of the mind with reference to truth.
Various Doctrines on Certitude
Skepticism, idealism, sensism, traditionalism, and dogmatism weighed, with the degrees of certitude.
The Sources of Certitude
Evidence as the ultimate source of certitude, with the senses, the mind, and authority as its fonts.
Scientific Certitude and Its Acquisition
Science as scientific knowledge, the object of a science, and deductive and inductive method.
Chapter 3 The Ontological Question
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The Nature of Being
Metaphysics and being as a transcendental concept, with the four first principles.
The Properties of Being
Unity, truth, goodness, and beauty as the transcendental properties of being.
The Classification of Being
Substance and the nine accidents as the ten categories, with a word on subsistence.
The Emergence of Created Being
Becoming by creation and by generation, with the intrinsic and extrinsic causes.
Chapter 4 The Cosmological Question
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The Nature of the Bodily World
Bodies as composed, changeable, contingent, and limited; quantity, activity, and the constitution of bodies.
The Origin and Development of the Bodily World
The first beginning of bodies in creation, the age of the world, and world-development.
The Fact of Finality in the Bodily World
Finality and design in the world, the ultimate end, nature and her laws, and miracles.
Chapter 5 The Psychological Question
Chapter 6 The Theological Question
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The Existence of God
The meaning of the word God, the demonstrability of His existence, and the five traditional proofs.
The Nature of God
The physical and metaphysical essence of God, and the divine attributes as one with the essence.
The Activity of God
The immanent operations of the divine Intellect and Will, and the transient operations of God.