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Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Reality
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Existence, Consciousness, and Identity as the Basic Axioms
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Causality as a Corollary of Identity
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Existence as Possessing Primacy Over Consciousness
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The Metaphysically Given as Absolute
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Idealism and Materialism as the Rejection of Basic Axioms
Chapter 2: Sense Perception and Volition
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The Senses as Necessarily Valid
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Sensory Qualities as Real
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Consciousness as Possessing Identity
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The Perceptual Level as the Given
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The Primary Choice as the Choice to Focus Or Not
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Human Actions, Mental and Physical, as Both Caused and Free
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Volition as Axiomatic (excerpt)
Chapter 3: Concept-Formation
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Differentiation and Integration as the Means to a Unit-Perspective
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Concept-Formation as a Mathematical Process (excerpt)
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Concepts of Consciousness as Involving Measurement-Omission
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Definition as the Final Step in Concept-Formation
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Concepts as Devices to Achieve Unit-Economy
Chapter 4: Objectivity
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Concepts as Objective
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Objectivity as Volitional Adherence to Reality by the Method of Logic
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Knowledge as Contextual
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Knowledge as Hierarchical
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Intrinsicism and Subjectivism as the Two Forms of Rejecting Objectivity
Chapter 5: Reason
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Emotions as a Product of Ideas (excerpt)
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Reason as Man's Only Means of Knowledge
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The Arbitrary as Neither True Nor False (excerpt)
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Certainty as Contextual (excerpt)
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Mysticism and Skepticism as Denials of Reason
Chapter 6: Man
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Living Organisms as Goal-Directed and Conditional (excerpt)
- Reason as Man's Basic Means of Survival
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Reason as an Attribute of the Individual
Chapter 7: the Good
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"Life" as the Essential Root of "Value"
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Man's Life as the Standard of Moral Value
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Rationality as the Primary Virtue
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The individual as the Proper Beneficiary of His Own Moral Action (excerpt)
- Values as Objective
Chapter 8: Virtue
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Independence as a Primary Orientation to Reality, Not to Other Men
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Integrity as Loyalty to Rational Principles
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Honesty as the Rejection of Unreality
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Justice as Rationality in the Evaluation of Men
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Productiveness as the Adjustment of Nature to Man
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Pride as Moral Ambitiousness
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The Initiation of Physical Force as Evil
Chapter 9: Happiness
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Virtue as Practical
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Happiness as the Normal Condition of Man
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Sex as Metaphysical (excerpt)
Chapter 10: Government
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Individual Rights as Absolutes
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Government as an Agency to Protect Rights
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Statism as the Politics of Unreason (excerpt)
Chapter 11: Capitalism
- Capitalism as the Only Moral Social System (excerpt)
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Capitalism as the System of Objectivity
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Opposition to Capitalism as Dependent on Bad Epistemology
Chapter 12: Art
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Art as a Concretization of Metaphysics
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Romantic Literature as Illustrating the Role of Philosophy in Art
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Esthetic Value as Objective
Epilogue: The Duel Between Plato and Aristotle
References
Index
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