Chapter IV
Arthur Mitchell translation
CHAPTER IV
The Cinematographical Mechanism of Thought and the Mechanistic Illusion—A Glance at the History of Systems—Real Becoming and False Evolutionism
Sketch of a criticism of philosophical systems, based on the analysis of the idea of Immutability and of the idea of "Nothing"—Relation of metaphysical problems to the idea of "Nothing"—Real meaning of this idea 272
Form and Becoming 298
The philosophy of Forms and its conception of Becoming—Plato and Aristotle—The natural trend of the intellect 304
Becoming in modern science: two views of Time 329
The metaphysical interpretation of modern science: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz 345
The Criticism of Kant 356
The evolutionism of Spencer 363