Outlines of the Philosophy of Religion (Classic Reprint)

l. Our every-day apprehension of the World is pervaded throughout with suppositions concerning an inner coherency of its phenomena, which is in no wise immediately perceived by us, and yet is regarded as needing no explanation and as necessary. Thus, for example, even the most common apprehension of the world is impossible without articulating the content of our perceptions in such a manner that we assume 'Things' as the supports and centres of its phenomena and events, and all kinds of ' reciprocal actions' as being interchanged between them. Neither those things, however, nor these actions, are immediate objects of perception. In the same manner are both a theoretic apprehension and a practical treatment of the world inconceivable without the supposition of a causal connection of that which has actual existence.
All these and other suppositions we have become accustomed to in life with the feeling of their necessity, but without availing ourselves of a clear knowledge of their

Table of Contents

Introduction i; FIRST PRINCIPAL DIVISION ONTOLOGY; Preliminary Remarks 15; Chapter I, Of the Significance (Conception) of; Being 18; Chapter II Of the Content of the Existent 25; Chapter III Of the Conception of Reality 35; Chapter IV Of Change 45; Chapter V Of Causes and Effects 57; SECOND PRINCIPAL DIVISION COSMOLOGY; Preliminary Remark 77; Chapter I Of Space, Time, and Motion 79; Chapter II Of Matter roo; Chapter III Of the Coherency of Natural Events 113; THIRD PRINCIPAL DIVISION PHENOMENOLOGY; Chapter 1 Of the Subjectivity of Cognition 129; Chapter II Of the Objectivity of Cognition 143; Chapter III Summary and Conclusion 153

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