AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE STEM.
CONTENTS.
DISCOURSE PRONOUNCED AT THE OPENING OF THE COURSE, December 4, 1817.
PHILOSOPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
PART FIRST. THE TRUE.
LECTURE I. THE EXISTENCE OF UNIVERSAL AND NECESSARY PRINCIPLES.
LECTURE II. ORIGIN OF UNIVERSAL AND NECESSARY PRINCIPLES.
LECTURE III. ON THE VALUE OF UNIVERSAL AND NECESSARY PRINCIPLES.
LECTURE IV. GOD THE PRINCIPLE OF PRINCIPLES.
LECTURE V. ON MYSTICISM.
PART SECOND THE BEAUTIFUL.
LECTURE VI. THE BEAUTIFUL IN THE MIND OF MAN.
LECTURE VII. THE BEAUTIFUL IN OBJECTS.
LECTURE VIII ON ART.
LECTURE IX. THE DIFFERENT ARTS.
LECTURE X. FRENCH ART IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
PART THIRD THE GOOD.
LECTURE XI. PRIMARY NOTIONS OF COMMON SENSE.
LECTURE XII. THE ETHICS OF INTEREST. [190]
LECTURE XIII. OTHER DEFECTIVE PRINCIPLES.
LECTURE XIV. TRUE PRINCIPLES OF ETHICS.
LECTURE XV. PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ETHICS.
LECTURE XVI. GOD THE PRINCIPLE OF THE IDEA OF THE GOOD.
LECTURE XVII. RESUME OF DOCTRINE.
APPENDIX.
BY M. V. COUSIN.
INCREASED BY
An Appendix on French Art.
TRANSLATED, WITH THE APPROBATION OF M. COUSIN, BY
O. W. WIGHT,
TRANSLATOR OF COUSIN'S "COURSE OF THE HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY," AMERICAN EDITOR OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART., AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF ABELARD AND HELOISE," ETC., ETC.
"God is the life of the soul, as the soul is the life of the body."
The Platonists and the Fathers.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
549 & 551 BROADWAY.
1872.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854,
By D. APPLETON & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.
TO
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART.,
Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh:
WHO HAS CLEARLY ELUCIDATED, AND, WITH GREAT ERUDITION,
SKETCHED THE HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF
COMMON SENSE;
WHO, FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HIS ILLUSTRIOUS COUNTRYMAN, REID
HAS ESTABLISHED THE DOCTRINE OF THE
IMMEDIATENESS OF PERCEPTION,
THEREBY FORTIFYING PHILOSOPHY AGAINST THE ASSAULTS OF SKEPTICISM;
WHO, TAKING A STEP IN ADVANCE OF ALL OTHERS,
HAS GIVEN TO THE WORLD A DOCTRINE OF THE
CONDITIONED,
THE ORIGINALITY AND IMPORTANCE OF WHICH ARE ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE
FEW QUALIFIED TO JUDGE IN SUCH MATTERS; WHOSE
NEW ANALYTIC OF LOGICAL FORMS
COMPLETES THE HITHERTO UNFINISHED WORKS OF ARISTOTLE;
THIS TRANSLATION OF M. COUSIN'S
Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good,
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
IN ADMIRATION OF A PROFOUND AND INDEPENDENT THINKER,
OF AN INCOMPARABLE MASTER OF PHILOSOPHIC CRITICISM;
AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM FOR A MAN IN WHOM GENIUS
AND ALMOST UNEQUALLED LEARNING
HAVE BEEN ADORNED BY
TRUTH, BEAUTY, AND GOODNESS OF LIFE.
