The Life of the Mind (Combined 2 Volumes in 1)

Editor's Note iii

One / Thinking

Introduction 3
I Appearance

1 The worlds phenomenal nature 19
2 (True) being and (mere) appearance:
the two-world theory 23
3 The reversal of the metaphysical hierarchy:
the value of the surface 26
4 Body and soul; soul and mind 30
5 Appearance and semblance 37
6 The thinking ego and the self: Kant 40
7 Reality and the thinking ego: the Cartesian
doubt and the sensus communis 45
8 Science and common sense; Kant's distinction
between intellect and reason; truth and
meaning 53

II Mental Activities in
a World of Appearances

9 Invisibility and withdrawal 69
10 The intramural warfare between though* and
common sense 80
11 Thinking and doing: the spectator 92
12 Language and metaphor 98
13 Metaphor and the ineffable 110
III What Makes Us Think?
14 The pre-philosophic assumptions of
Greek philosophy 129
15 Plato's answer and its echoes 141
16 The Roman answer 151
17 The answer of Socrates 166
18 The two-in-one 179

IV Where Are We When
We Think?

19 "Tantot je pense et tantot je suis"
(Valery): the nowhere 197
20 The gap between past and future: the nunc stans 202
21 Postscriptum 213
Notes 217

Two / Willing

Introduction a
I The Philosophers and
the Will

1 Time and mental activities 11
2 The Will and the modem age 19
3 The main objections to the Will in post-medieval
philosophy 23
4 The problem of the new 28
5 The clash between thinking, and willing:
the tonality of mental activities 34
6 Hegel's solution: the philosophy of History 39

II Quaestio mihi factus sum:
The Discovery of
the Inner Man

7 The facultu of choice: proairesis, the
forerunner of the Will 55
8 The Apostle Paul and the impotence
of the Will 63
9 Epictetus and the omnipotence of the Will 73
10 Augustine, the first philosopher of the Will 84

III Will and Intellect

11 Thomas Aquinas and the primacy
of Intellect 113
12 Duns Scotus and the primacy of the Will 125

IV Conclusions

13 German Idealism and the "rainbow-bridge
of concepts” 149
14 Nietzsche's repudiation of the Will
15 Heidegger's Will-not-to-will 172
16 The abyss of freedom and the novus ordo
seclorum 195
Notes 219
Editor’s Postface 241
APPENDIX: JUDGING
Excerpts from Lectures on Kant’s
Political Philosophy 255
Indexes 273