Intuitive thinking as a spiritual path: philosophy of freedom

Translator's introduction

Introduction / Gertrude Reif Hughes

Preface to the revised edition, 1918

Part I : Theory : Knowledge of freedom

Conscious human action ; Fundamental urge for knowledge ; Thinking in the service of understanding the world ; World as percept ; Knowing the world ; Human individuality ; Are there limits to cognition?

Part II : Reality of freedom

Factors of life ; Idea of freedom ; Freedom-philosophy and monism ; World purpose and life purpose (human destiny) ; Moral imagination (Darwinism and ethics) ; Value of life (pessimism and optimism) ; Individuality and genus

Final questions

Consequences of monism.