First and Last Things

Contents

• Introduction

Book 1. Metaphysics

1. The Necessity for Metaphysics
2. The Resumption of Metaphysical Enquiry
3. The World of Fact
4. Skepticism of the Instrument
5. The Classificatory Assumption
6. Empty Terms
7. Negative Terms
8. Logic Static and Life Kinetic
9. Planes and Dialects of Thought
10. Practical Conclusions from These Considerations
11. Beliefs
12. Summary

Book 2. Of Beliefs

1. My Primary Act of Faith
2. On Using the Name of God
3. Free Will and Predestination
4. A Picture of the World of Men
5. The Problem of Motives the Real Problem of Life
6. A Review of Motives
7. The Synthetic Motive
8. The Being of Mankind
9. Individuality an Interlude
10. The Mystic Element
11. The Synthesis
12. Of Personal Immortality
13. A Criticism of Christianity
14. Of Other Religions
15. Summary

Book 3. Of General Conduct

1. Conduct Follows from Belief
2. What Is Good?
3. Socialism
4. A Criticism of Certain Forms of Socialism
5. Hate and Love
6. The Preliminary Social Duty
7. Wrong Ways of Living
8. Social Parasitism and Contemporary Injustices
9. The Case of the Wife and Mother
10. Associations
11. Of an Organized Brotherhood
12. Concerning New Starts and New Religions
13. The Idea of the Church
14. Of Secession
15. A Dilemma
16. A Comment
17. War
18. War and Competition
19. Modern War
20. Of Abstinences and Disciplines
21. On Forgetting, and the Need of Prayer, Reading, Discussion and Worship
22. Democracy and Aristocracy
23. On Debts of Honor
24. The Idea of Justice
25. Of Love and Justice
26. The Weakness of Immaturity
27. Possibility of a New Etiquette
28. Sex
29. The Institution of Marriage
30. Conduct in Relation to the Thing That Is
31. Conduct towards Transgressors

Book 4. Some Personal Things

1. Personal Love and Life
2. The Nature of Love
3. The Will to Love
4. Love and Death
5. The Consolation of Failure
6. The Last Confession