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CONTENTS


TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION ---//

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION ---{ I }


FIRST PART. SPACE

Introduction ---{11}
§ 1. Space as a philosophical problem taken in general ---{12}
§ 2. Space as a real property of things ---{21}
§ 3. Space as such ---{36}

Chapter I. Geometric space ---{43}
First step ---{45}
Second step ---{46}
Third step ---{59}

§ 1. What do we understand by unreal? ---{62}
§ 2. In what does the presumed reality of the mathematical consist? ---{71}
§ 3. Geometric spaciality ---{76}

Chapter II. Physical space ---{83}
§ 1. What does exist in space? ---{86}
§ 2. Space as such ---{97}
§ 3. Physical spaciality ---{108}

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Chapter III. Spaciality as a mode of reality ---{127}
§ 1. Spaciality as property of things ---{129}
§ 2. Space as mode of reality ---{134}
First point. What do we understand by reality? ---{136}
Second point. What is spaciality? ---{139}
Third point. Spaciality as fundament of space ---{144}
§ 3. Spaciality as moment of the transcendental order ---{150}

Chapter IV. Space as moment in the transcendental system of the real ---{159}
§ 1. Spaciality as property of real things ---{164}
§ 2. Spaciality as moment of the transcendental system of reality ---{172}
§ 3. Man and space ---{186}


SECOND PART. TIME

Introduction ---{209}

Chapter I. The descriptive concept of time ---{215}
§ 1. Characteristics of time considered as such ---{216}
1. The connection of the moments of time ---{217}
2. The direction of time ---{225}
3. Temporal distance ---{228}
4. The unity of the temporal line ---{231}
§ 2. Time and things ---{240}
1. Things with respect to time, their when ---{240}
2. Time with respect to things ---{244}

Chapter II. Structural concept of time ---{261}
§ 1. Temporal structures ---{262}
1. Physical time ---{262}
2. Human time ---{267}
§ 2. The universality of time ---{285}

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Chapter III. The modal concept of time ---{289}
§ 1. What is understood by being ---{290}
§ 2. Time as a mode of being ---{297}
1. Time as modal chracteristic ---{297}
2. Time is not formally a mode of reality ---{298}
3. Time as a mode of being ---{300}

Chapter IV. The unity of time ---{315}
§ 1. The time of physical realities ---{317}
§ 2. Human time ---{320}
§ 3. The unity of time ---{328}


THIRD PART. MATTER

Introduction. The problem of matter ---{333}
1. What are those things we call material things ---{333}
2. Material thing is not matter ---{244}

Chapter I. Matter as principle ---{347}
§ 1. Matter as structural principle ---{347}
§ 2. Matter as principle of actuality ---{360}

Chapter II. Formal concept of matter ---{375}
§ 1. Some classical concepts about matter ---{386}
§ 2. The formal concept of matter ---{386}

Chapter III. Universality of matter ---{403}
Universality of matter ---{405}

Chapter IV. Unitarity of matter ---{415}

Chapter V. Dynamic unity of matter ---{431}
First point. What is deployment? ---{432}
Second point. How does the deployment occur? ---{461}
I. Dynamism and change ---{462}
II. Dynamism and causality ---{475}

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Third point. The dynamic structures of the deployment ---{488}
I. Dynamism of the variation ---{491}
II. Dynamism of the alteration ---{508}
III. Dynamism of sameness ---{528}

Chapter VI. Elevated matter, human genesis ---{579}
I. What is matter? ---{579}
II. Human genesis ---{589}

Appendix 1. The elementary particles ---{611}

Appendix 2. The living being ---{621}
§ 1. Biological approximation to the living being ---{623}
§ 2. Living structures ---{634}
I. The rootedness of actions in the structures ---{634}
II. The structures by themselves ---{637}
1. The stabilization of matter, the organic molecule ---{638}
2. The vitalization of matter, the cellular system ---{643}
3. The organization ---{651}
§ 3. Vegetable life ---{676}
§ 4. Animal life ---{678}


INDEX ---{701}

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