Durkheim's Philosophy Lectures: Notes from the Lycée de Sens Course, 1883–1884Moving back and forth between the history of philosophy and the contributions of philosophers in his own day, Durkheim takes up topics as diverse as philosophical psychology, logic, ethics, and metaphysics, and seeks to articulate a unified philosophical position. Remarkably, in these lectures, given more than a decade before the publication of his groundbreaking book, The Division of Labour in Society (1893), the 'social realism' that is so characteristic of his later work - where he insists, famously, that social facts cannot be reduced to psychological or economic ones, and that such facts constrain human action in important ways - is totally absent in these early lectures. For this reason, they will be of special interest to students of the history of the social sciences, for they shed important light on the course of Durkheim's intellectual development. |
Contents
The Object and Method of Philosophy Conclusion | 36 |
The Divisions of Philosophy | 47 |
Faculties of the Soul | 57 |
The Inclinations | 63 |
Theory of Knowledge | 72 |
External Perception The Origin of the Idea 77 112 | 77 |
External Perception On the Objectivity of the Idea of | 80 |
External Perception On the Objectivity of the Idea of | 82 |
On Induction | 198 |
Fallacies | 202 |
On Method | 205 |
Method in the Mathematical Sciences | 207 |
The Methodology of the Physical Sciences | 209 |
Method in the Natural Sciences | 213 |
Method in the Moral Sciences | 215 |
Method in the Historical Sciences | 218 |
Consciousness On the Conditions of Consciousness | 86 |
Consciousness On the Origin of the Idea of the Self | 89 |
Consciousness On the Nature of the Self | 92 |
Reason The Definition of Reason | 95 |
Reason The Material of Reason 1 Principles | 98 |
Reason The Material of Reason 2 Rational or | 101 |
Reason Empiricism | 106 |
Reason Evolutionism The Theory of Heredity | 110 |
Reason On the Objectivity of Rational Principles | 115 |
Faculties of Conception On the Association of Ideas | 119 |
Faculties of Conception Memory | 122 |
Faculties of Conception Imagination | 125 |
Faculties of Conception Sleep Dreams Madness | 129 |
Complex Operations of the Mind Attention | 132 |
Complex Operations of the Mind Generalization | 134 |
The Object and Method of Aesthetics | 138 |
What Is Beauty? | 142 |
Prettiness and the Sublime Art | 145 |
On Activity in General Instinct | 148 |
Habit | 151 |
On the Will and on Freedom | 156 |
On Freedom Continued Psychological Determinism | 159 |
On Freedom Conclusion Scientific Determinism | 162 |
Logic | 167 |
Introduction On Logic | 169 |
On Truth On Certainty | 172 |
On Certainty Conclusion | 175 |
On False Certainty or Error | 178 |
Skepticism | 181 |
Ideas Terms Judgments Propositions | 185 |
Definition | 188 |
On the Syllogism | 190 |
Language | 221 |
Ethics | 227 |
Definition and Divisions of Ethics | 229 |
On Moral Responsibility | 230 |
On Moral Law The History of Utilitarianism | 232 |
Critique of Utilitarianism The Morality of Sentiment | 236 |
The Morality of Kant | 240 |
The Moral Law | 243 |
On Duty and the Good On Virtue Rights | 245 |
62A Division of Practical Ethics | 249 |
62B Individual Morality | 250 |
Domestic Ethics | 254 |
Civic Ethics | 258 |
General Duties of Social Life | 263 |
General Duties of Social Life 1 The Duty of Justice | 265 |
General Duties of Social Life 2 Charity | 270 |
Summary of Ethics | 272 |
Metaphysics | 275 |
Metaphysics Preliminary Considerations | 277 |
On the Soul and Its Existence | 279 |
On the Spirituality of the Soul Conclusion On | 281 |
The Relationship between the Soul and the Body | 284 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 288 |
On God Metaphysical Proofs of His Existence | 292 |
Critique of Metaphysical Proofs of the Existence of | 296 |
Proof | 299 |
Critique of the Physicotheological Proof Conclusion | 303 |
The Nature and Attributes of God | 306 |
The Relationship between God and the World | 309 |
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