CONTENTS
Introduction by Michael Wilson vii
Author's Prefaces xxiii
KNOWLEDGE OF
FREEDOM
1 Conscious Human Action 3
2 The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge 13
3 Thinking in the Service of Knowledge 21
4 The World as Percept 40
5 The Act of Knowing 60
6 Human Individuality 82
7 Are there Limits to Knowledge? 89
THE
REALITY OF
FREEDOM
8 The Factors of Life 113
9 The Idea of Freedom 121
10 Freedom -- Philosophy and Monism 146
11 World Purpose and Life Purpose
(The Ordering of Man's Destiny) 156
12 Moral Imagination
(Darwinism and Morality) 162
13 The Value of Life
(Optimism and Pessimism) 175
14 Individuality and Genus 203
ULTIMATE
QUESTIONS
The Consequences of Monism 211
Appendix 223
Index (names of authors cited in the text) 233