Chapter II: Transition Period 360

A. Idealism and Scepticism 363

1. Berkeley 364

2. Hume 369

B. Scottish Philosophy 375

1. Thomas Reid 376

2. James Beattie 377

3. James Oswald 377

4. Dugald Stewart 378

C. French Philosophy 379

1. The Negative Aspect 388

2. The Positive Aspect 392
_a._ Materialism 393
_b._ Robinet 394

3. Idea of a Concrete Universal Unity 397
_a._ Opposition between Sensation and Thought 398
_b._ Montesquieu 399
_c._ Helvetius 400
_d._ Rousseau 400

D. The German Illumination 403