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CONTENTS
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THE ABSOLUTE AND THE INDIVIDUAL: SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY BY PROFESSOR ROYCE

Introduction 135

Part I — The Conception of Reality 141

I. The Consciousness of Reality ..... 144

II. The Possibilities of Experience ..... 149

III. The First Argument for Realism 153

IV. The Second Argument for Realism, and its Idealistic Interpretation . . . . . . . .160

V. The Third Argument for Realism: Transition to Absolute Idealism . . . . . . . • 171

Part II — The Conception of Will and its Relation to the Absolute 182

I. The Essential and the Non-essential Elements of the Will 187

II. The Relation of the Will to the Absolute 193

III. General Review of the Argument . 203

Part III — The Principle of Individuation 217

I. Definition of the Problem 217

II. The Thomistic Theory of Individuation 223

III. The Scotistic Theory of Individuation . 230

IV. Critical Comparison of these Theories . 235

V. The Individual as Undefinable by Thought, and as Unpresentable in Experience 247

VI. The Individual as the Object of an Exclusive Interest 258

VII. The Reality of the Individual 266

VIII. Individuality and Will 268