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Volume 1 of the Collected Papers

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[1983]

Edited by Kenneth Blackwell, Andrew Brink, Nicholas Griffin, Richard A. Rempel and John G. Slater
London and New York: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1983.
Pages: xxxiv, 554.
ISBN: 978-0-04-920067-8

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. ADOLESCENT WRITINGS

1 Greek Exercises [1888–89]
Headnote to Essay Notebook (2–8)
2 How Far Does a Country’s Prosperity Depend on Natural Resources [1889]
3 Evolution as Affecting Modern Political Science [1889]
4 State-Socialism [1889]
5 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Party Government, and the Conditions Necessary for Its Success [1889]
6 “The Language of a Nation Is a Monument to Which Every Forcible Individual in the Course of Ages Has Contributed a Stone.” [1889]
7 Contentment; Its Good and Bad Points [1889]
8 Destruction Must Precede Construction [1889]

PART II. LATER PERSONAL WRITINGS

9 “A Locked Diary” [1890–94]
10 Die Ehe [1893]
11 Self-Appreciation [1897]

PART III. APOSTOLIC ESSAYS

General Headnote
12 Can We Be Statesmen? [1893]
13 Lövborg or Hedda [1894]
14 Cleopatra or Maggie Tulliver [1894]
15 Is Ethics a Branch of Empirical Psychology? [1897]
16 Seems, Madam? Nay, It Is [1897]
17 Was the World Good before the Sixth Day? [1899]

PART IV. GRADUATE ESSAYS IN EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

General Headnote to Parts IV and V
18 Paper on Epistemology I [1893]
19 Paper on Epistemology II [1893]
20 Paper on Bacon [1893]
21 Paper on History of Philosophy [1894]
22 Paper on Epistemology III [1894]
23 Paper on Descartes [1894]
24 A Critical Comparison of the Methods of Bacon, Hobbes and DesCartes [1894]
25 Paper on Bacon [1894]
26 Paper on DesCartes I [1894]
27 Paper on Descartes II [1894]
28 Paper on Hobbes [1894]
29 On the Distinction between the Psychological and Metaphysical Points of View [c.1894]

PART V. GRADUATE ESSAYS IN ETHICS

30 On Pleasure [1893]
31 On the Foundations of Ethics [1893]
32 The Relation of What Ought to Be to What Is, Has Been or Will Be [1893]
33 The Relation of Rule and End [1893]
34 On the Definition of Virtue [1893]
35 The Ethical Bearings of Psychogony [1894]
36 Ethical Axioms [1894]
37 The Free-Will Problem from an Idealist Standpoint [1895]
38 Note on Ethical Theory [c.1896]
39 Are All Desires Equally Moral? [c.1896]

PART VI. FELLOWSHIP AND FIRST PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

General Headnote
40 Review of Heymans, Die Gesetze und Elemente des wissen schaftlichen Denkens [1895]

41 Observations on Space and Geometry [1895]

a Introduction

b Alternative or Supplementary Introduction

c Note. On the Meaning of Apriority as Applied to Space

d Erhardt, Metaphysik, Kap. V, Pp. 226–258

42 The Logic of Geometry [1896]
43 Review of Lechalas, Étude sur l’espace et le temps [1896]
44 The À Priori in Geometry [1896]

PART VII. POLITICAL ECONOMY

General Headnote
45 Note on Economic Theory [c.1895]
46 German Social Democracy, as a Lesson in Political Tactics [1896]
47 The Uses of Luxury [1896]
48 Mechanical Morals and the Moral of Machinery [1896]
49 Review of Schmöle, Die Sozialdemokratische Gewerkschaften in Deutschland seit dem Erlasse des Sozialisten-Gesetzes [1897]

APPENDICES

I Outlines and Reports of Lectures
II What Shall I Read?
Author Index

Annotation

Textual Notes

Textual Principles and Methods

Guide to the Textual Notes

Bibliographical Index
General Index