Lecturing in Paris from 1817, Victor Cousin argued that the mind grasps universal and necessary principles that point beyond experience to God. The course moves through three parts, on truth, on beauty and the arts, and on moral good, where he rejects ethics built on mere utility. O. W. Wight’s translation adds an appendix on French art.
The clearest statement of Cousin’s eclectic spiritualism, once among the most influential philosophies in France. Download the free EPUB.