CHAPTER III
ON THE MEANING OF LIFE--THE ORDER OF NATURE AND THE FORM OF INTELLIGENCE
Relation of the problem of life to the problem of knowledge--The method of philosophy--Apparent vicious circle of the method proposed--Real vicious circle of the opposite method 186
Simultaneous genesis of matter and intelligence--Geometry inherent in matter--Geometrical tendency of the intellect--Geometry and deduction--Geometry and induction--Physical laws 199
Sketch of a theory of knowledge based on the analysis of the idea of Disorder--Two opposed forms of order: the problem of genera and the problem of laws--The idea of "disorder" an oscillation of the intellect between the two kinds of order 220
Creation and evolution--Ideal genesis of matter--The origin and function of life--The essential and the accidental in the vital process and in the evolutionary movement--Mankind--The life of the body and the life of the spirit 236
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
INDEX 371