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Thinking in Opposites
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Preface
Part I
External and Internal Reality
Chapter#
Contradictions and Opposites in Thought
External and Internal Reality
The Main Characteristics of the Two Realities
Part II
The External and Internal Opposites
The Need for Opposites
The External Opposites
The Nature of Feeling
The Internal Opposites
Right and Wrong Development of Feeling
Part III
Absolute Values and the Interconnected Opposites
The Absolute Values
The Interconnected Opposites
Interconnected Opposites and Absolute Values
Space and Time
Necessity and Freedom
The One and the Many
The Creation of Further Interconnected Opposites
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Thinking in Opposites
An investigation of the nature of man
as revealed by the nature of thinking
by Paul Roubiczek
FULL CONTENTS
PREFACE
PART I: EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL REALITY
CHAPTER 1
Contradictions and Opposites in Thought
The inevitability of contradictions
Opposites inherent in thought
Thinking in opposites
CHAPTER 2
External and Internal Reality
The concept 'reality'
The necessary distinction between two realities
External reality
Internal reality
CHAPTER 3
The Main Characteristics of the Two Realities
The particular nature of internal reality
The need for a complete separation
Both realities must be taken into account
PART II: THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL OPPOSITES
CHAPTER 4
The Need for Opposites
The necessity for different kinds of opposites
The meaning of the concept 'opposite'
CHAPTER 5
The External Opposites
The main line of our investigation
Opposites indispensable for the knowledge of external reality
The special importance of the constructive concepts
CHAPTER 6
The Nature of Feeling
CHAPTER 7
The Internal Opposites
Means, ends and values
Intentions, aims and principles
The constructive concepts
CHAPTER 8
Right and Wrong Development of Feeling
The intrusion of feeling into the realm of thought
The necessary concentration on values
PART III: ABSOLUTE VALUES AND THE INTERCONNECTED OPPOSITES
CHAPTER 9
The Absolute Values
Truth, goodness and beauty
The major operations of thinking
The correct application of the absolute values
CHAPTER 10
The Interconnected Opposites
Their nature and purpose
Their main characteristics
CHAPTER 11
Interconnected Opposites and Absolute Values
Space and Time
In external reality
In internal reality
Truth
Necessity and freedom
In external reality
In internal reality
Goodness
The One and the Many
In external reality
In internal reality
Beauty
CHAPTER 12
The Creation of Further Interconnected Opposites