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The System of nature [electronic resource] : Volume 1 : or, Laws of the moral and physical world / Baron d'Holbach, with notes by Diderot, now translated ... by H. D. Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d', 1723-1789.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy and religion.
- Materialism.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 pages)
- Other Title:
- Laws of the moral and physical world
- Place of Publication:
- Kitchener, Ont. : Batoche, 2001.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Author's Preface
- Chapter I: Of Nature.
- Chapter II: Of Motion, and its Origin.
- Chapter III: Of Matter: - Of its various Combinations
- Of its diversified Motion
- or, of the Course of Nature.
- Chapter IV: Of the Laws of Motion common to all the Beings of Nature - Of Attraction and Repulsion - Of inert Force - Of Necessity.
- Chapter V: Of Order and Confusion - Of Intelligence - Of Chance.
- Chapter VI: Of Man - Of his Distinction into Moral and Physical - Of his Origin.
- Chapter VII: Of the Soul, and of the Spiritual System.
- Chapter VIII: Of the Intellectual Faculties
- they are all derived from the Faculty of Feeling.
- Chapter IX: Of the Diversity of the Intellectual Faculties
- they depend on Physical Causes, as do their Moral Qualities. The Natural Principles of Society. - Of Morals. - Of Politics.
- Chapter X: The Soul does not derive its Ideas from itself. It has no innate Ideas.
- Chapter XI: Of the System of Man's Free Agency.
- Chapter XII: An Examination of the Opinion which pretends that the System of Fatalism is Dangerous.
- Chapter XIII: Of the Immortality of the Soul, - Of the Doctrine of a future State
- - Of the Fear of Death.
- Chapter XIV: Education, Morals, and the Laws, suffice to restrain Man. - Of the Desire of Immortality. - Of Suicide.
- Chapter XV: Of Man's true Interest, or of the Ideas he forms to himself of Happiness. - Man cannot be Happy without Virtue.
- Chapter XVI: The Errours of Man, upon what constitutes Happiness, the true Source of his Evil. - Remedies that may be applied.
- Chapter XVII: Those Ideas which are true, or founded upon Nature, are the only Remedies for the Evils of Man. - Recapitulation. - Conclusion of the First Part.
- Chapter XVIII: The Origin of Man's Ideas upon the Divinity.
- Chapter XIX: Of Mythology, and Theology.
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Notes : [209-236].
- Originally published : [S.l. : s.n.], 1868.
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