- 1Translator’s Preface
- 2A Philosophical Treatise — The Author’s Preface to the Second Edition
- 3Editor’s Preface to the Third Edition
- 4List of Additions to the Third Edition
- 5Editor’s Preface to the Fourth Edition
- 6Chapter I — Introduction
- 7§ 2 — Application of the Method in the Present Case
- 8§ 3 — Utility of This Inquiry
- 9§ 4 — Importance of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- 10§ 5 — The Principle Itself
- 11Chapter II — General Survey of the Most Important Views Hitherto He…
- 12§ 7 — Descartes
- 13§ 8 — Spinoza
- 14§ 9 — Leibnitz
- 15§ 10 — Wolf
- 16§ 11 — Philosophers Between Wolf and Kant
- 17§ 12 — Hume
- 18§ 13 — Kant and His School
- 19§ 14 — On the Proofs of the Principle
- 20Chapter III — Insufficiency of the Old and Outlines of a New Demons…
- 21§ 16 — The Roots of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- 22Chapter IV — On the First Class of Objects for the Subject, and Tha…
- 23§ 18 — Outline of a Transcendental Analysis of Empirical Reality
- 24§ 19 — Immediate Presence of Representations
- 25§ 20 — Principle of Sufficient Reason of Becoming
- 26§ 21 — À Priori Character of the Conception of Causality — Intellec…
- 27§ 22 — Of the Immediate Object
- 28§ 23 — Arguments Against Kant’s Proof of the à Priority of the Conc…
- 29§ 24 — Of the Misapplication of the Law of Causality
- 30§ 25 — The Time in Which a Change Takes Place
- 31Chapter V — On the Second Class of Objects for the Subject and the…
- 32§ 27 — The Utility of Conceptions
- 33§ 28 — Representatives of Conceptions. The Faculty of Judgment
- 34§ 29 — Principle of Sufficient Reason of Knowing
- 35§ 30 — Logical Truth
- 36§ 31 — Empirical Truth
- 37§ 32 — Transcendental Truth
- 38§ 33 — Metalogical Truth
- 39§ 34 — Reason
- 40Chapter VI — On the Third Class of Objects for the Subject and That…
- 41§ 36 — Principle of the Sufficient Reason of Being
- 42§ 37 — Reason of Being in Space
- 43§ 38 — Reason of Being in Time. Arithmetic
- 44§ 39 — Geometry
- 45Chapter VII — On the Fourth Class of Objects for the Subject, and t…
- 46§ 41 — Subject of Knowledge and Object
- 47§ 42 — The Subject of Volition
- 48§ 43 — Willing. The Law of Motives (Motivation)
- 49§ 44 — Influence of the Will Over the Intellect
- 50§ 45 — Memory
- 51Chapter VIII — General Observations and Results
- 52§ 47 — Relation in Time Between Reason and Consequence
- 53§ 48 — Reciprocity of Reasons
- 54§ 49 — Necessity
- 55§ 50 — Series of Reasons and Consequences
- 56§ 51 — Each Science Has for Its Guiding Thread One of the Forms of…
- 57§ 52 — Two Principal Results
- 58On the Will in Nature
- 59Preface to the Second Edition
- 60Editor’s Preface to the Third Edition
- 61Editor’s Preface to the Fourth Edition
- 62Introduction
- 63Physiology and Pathology
- 64Comparative Anatomy
- 65Physiology of Plants
- 66Physical Astronomy
- 67Linguistic
- 68Animal Magnetism and Magic
- 69Sinology
- 70Reference to Ethics
- 71Conclusion
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