TABLE OF CONTENTS: FOREWORD vii
PREFACE xi
Chapter I. THE MIND OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 3
Chapter II. NATURE AND NATURAL SCIENCE 37
Chapter III. PSYCHOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY 93
Chapter IV. RELIGION 134
I. The Dogma of Original Sin and the Problem of Theodicy 137
II. Tolerance and the Foundation of Natural Religion 160
III. Religion and History 182
Chapter V. THE CONQUEST OF THE HISTORICAL WORLD 197
Chapter VI. LAW, STATE, AND SOCIETY 234
I. Law and the Principle of Inalienable Rights 234
II. The Contract and the Method of the Social Sciences 253
Chapter VII. FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF AESTHETICS 275
I. The Age of Criticism 275
II. Classical Aesthetics and the Objectivity of the Beautiful 278
III. Taste and the Trend toward Subjectivism 297
IV. Intuitional Aesthetics and the Problem of Genius 312
V. Reason and the Imagination: Gottsched and the Swiss Critics 331
VI. The Foundation of Systematic Aesthetics: Baumgarten 338
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