Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chronological Table -- Introduction -- Part One PRELUDE -- I Perception, Conception and Thought -- 1 The sensuous -- 2 Concepts and conceptions -- 3 The acquisition of thoughts -- 4 Pure thoughts -- 5 A mathematical analogy -- 6 Non-empirical conceptions -- 7 Grammar and metaphor -- II Thinking and the Self -- 1 Form, content and object -- 2 The subject as thinker -- 3 The subject as thoughts -- 4 The growth of self-consciousness -- III Experience, Meta-thinking and Objectivity -- 1 Science and commonsense -- 2 Empirical science -- 3 Science and thought -- 4 Explanation -- 5 The defects of empirical science -- 6 Objectivity and science -- 7 Varieties of objectivity -- 8 Thought and essence -- 9 Self and world -- Part Two PROBLEMS -- IV Philosophy and the Fall of Man -- 1 Problems and the fall -- 2 Evil -- 3 The fall from innocence -- 4 The restoration of unity -- 5 Philosophy and problems -- V Knowledge and Assumptions -- 1 The rejection of epistemology -- 2 Knowledge and reality -- 3 Refutation and self-refutation -- 4 Completeness and necessity -- 5 Scepticism and diversity -- 6 Limits and intelligibility -- 7 The problem of the beginning -- 8 Language and meta-language -- 9 Fiction and meta-fiction -- 10 Circles and infinity -- VI Infinite Objects and Finite Cognition -- 1 Metaphysics and opposition -- 2 Infinity and description -- 3 Concepts and truth -- 4 Wholes, parts and falsity -- 5 From the concept of infinity to the infinite concept -- 6 Truth and predication -- 7 Propositions and assumptions -- 8 The superfluity of the propositional form -- 9 Concepts and logic -- 10 Dogmatism and antinomy -- VII Faith, Proofs and Infinity -- 1 The defects of cognition -- 2 Faith and its objects -- 3 The variety of faith -- 4 The Unknown God -- 5 Religion and consensus.

6 The vacuity of immediacy -- 7 The mediated and the immediate -- 8 The conditions of certainty -- 9 Hegel's debt to Jacobi -- 10 Proofs, grammar and physiology -- 11 The traditional conception of the proofs -- 12 Concept and properties -- 13 Perfection and abstraction -- 14 Theology and geometry -- 15 Hegel's reply to Kant -- 16 Criticisms of the traditional view -- 17 Finitude and deduction -- 18 Grounds and dependence -- 19 Identity, difference and Spinoza -- 20 The rise to God -- 21 Philosophical arguments -- 22 The traditional ontological proof -- 23 Hegel's ontological proof -- 24 God as spirit -- 25 Minds, machines and organisms -- 26 Substance and subject -- Part Three THE SYSTEM -- VIII Logic: Thinking about Thinking -- 1 The structure of logic -- 2 Form and content -- 3 The point of logic -- 4 Thought and reflexivity -- 5 The advance of thinking -- 6 Meaning and metaphor -- 7 The construction of meaning -- 8 Complexity and transcendence -- 9 Progress and contradictions -- 10 Hegel's triads -- 11 The ambiguity of the triad -- 12 Contradictions and organisms -- 13 Criticism and self-criticism -- 14 Thoughts, thinking and the ego -- 15 Thought and individuals -- 16 Hegel's circles -- 17 From logic to logic -- 18 'A tale that tells itself" -- 19 Maps, infinity and self-reference -- 20 The standpoint of the concept -- 21 Concepts and the concept -- 22 Reciprocity and purpose -- 23 Teleology and concepts -- 24 The concept vindicated -- IX Thought and Things: the Transition to Nature -- 1 An ambiguous transition -- 2 Nature and contingency -- 3 Infinity reconsidered -- 4 The concrete universals -- 5 'Conceiving a thing which is unconceived' -- 6 Form, matter and ineffability -- 7 The elimination of the material -- 8 Relations and the inverted world -- 9 The primacy of relations -- 10 Reciprocal reductions.

X Idealism, Appearance and Contradiction -- 1 Subjective idealisms -- 2 Appearance and actuality -- 3 Appearance and the concept -- 4 Actuality and the concept -- 5 Purpose and subjectivity -- 6 Hegel, Kant and objectivity -- 7 Logic and things -- 8 Objective understanding and objective reason -- 9 Appearance and change -- 10 Degrees of truth -- 11 Death and immortality -- 12 Varieties of contradiction -- 13 Contradictions and the finite -- 14 The overcoming of contradiction -- 15 Consistency and idealism -- XI Freedom, Morality and the End of History -- 1 Freedom -- 2 Autonomy and empiricism -- 3 Kant and freedom -- 4 Hegel's solutions -- 5 Pure thinking and pure willing -- 6 Nature and society -- 7 Freedom and dissent -- 8 Morality and the final end -- 9 Is the world as it ought to be? -- 10 Critics, heroes and rebels -- 11 What next? -- 12 The close of Hegel's system -- 13 The end of history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.