CONTENTS
Arthur James Balfour
PART I
INTRODUCTORY
LECTURE I
PAGE
I.
Introductory: Metaphysics and the “Plain Man”
3
II.
“Inevitable” Beliefs and Common Sense
13
III.
The Material of the Present Argument for Theism: the Character of the Theism to be established
17
IV.
What the Argument is not. Some of its Limitations
23
LECTURE II
I.
Design and Selection
28
II.
Argument from Values. The Cognitive and the Causal Series
44
PART II
ÆSTHETIC AND ETHICAL VALUES
LECTURE III
ÆSTHETIC AND THEISM
I.
Æsthetic described
55
II.
Whence comes it?
58
III.
Values and the Higher Emotions
63
IV.
Natural Beauty
77
V.
Æsthetic of History
81
LECTURE IV
ETHICS AND THEISM
I.
Ethics described
95
II.
Egoism, Altruism, and Selection
98
III.
Selection and the Higher Morality
107
IV.
Same subject continued
119
V.
Theism and the Collision of Ends
122
PART III
INTELLECTUAL VALUES
LECTURE V
INTRODUCTION TO PART III
I.
Retrospect
133
II.
Reason and Causation
134
III.
Leslie Stephen, and Locke’s Aphorism
136
IV.
Reason and Empirical Agnosticism
145
LECTURE VI
PERCEPTION, COMMON SENSE, AND SCIENCE
I.
Common Sense and the External World
149
II.
Science and the External World
153
III.
Primary and Secondary Qualities
156
IV.
Perception as a Causal Series
160
V.
Perception as a Cognitive Act
165
VI.
An Irresistible Assumption
170
LECTURE VII
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