CHAPTER II.—TRANSITION PERIOD 360

A. Idealism and Scepticism 363

1. Berkeley 364

2. Hume 369

B. Scottish Philosophy 375

1. Thomas Reid 376

2. James Beattie 377

3. James Oswald 377

4. Dugald Stewart 378

C. French Philosophy 379

1. The Negative Aspect 388

2. The Positive Aspect 392 _a._ Materialism 393 _b._ Robinet 394

3. Idea of a Concrete Universal Unity 397 _a._ Opposition between Sensation and Thought 398 _b._ Montesquieu 399 _c._ Helvetius 400 _d._ Rousseau 400

D. The German Illumination 403

SECTION THREE

RECENT GERMAN PHILOSOPHY 409

A. Jacobi 410

B. Kant 423

C. Fichte 479

1. The First Principles of Fichte’s Philosophy 481

2. Fichte’s System in a Re-constituted Form 505

3. The More Important of the Followers of Fichte 506 _a._ Friedrich von Schlegel 507 _b._ Schleiermacher 508 _c._ Novalis 510 _d._ Fries, Bouterweck, Krug 510

D. Schelling 512

E. Final Result 545

INDEX 555

CORRIGENDA IN VOLS. I. AND II. 570