Chapter II: Part II: Physics

_SECTION A_

CHAP.

I. INTRODUCTORY 19

II. TIME AND SPACE 34

III. FIRST PRINCIPLES

(_a_) THE MATERIAL PRINCIPLE 49

(_b_) PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CAUSES 55

(_c_) MOTION AND MUTATION 59

(_d_) ON QUALITIES 65

(_e_) ON THE ORIGIN AND DECAY OF THINGS 82

_SECTION B_

I. THE INANIMATE WORLD 89

II. THE ANIMATE WORLD

(_a_) INTRODUCTORY 98

(_b_) ON DESIGN IN NATURE 100

(_c_) THE THEORY OF THE SOUL 106

(_d_) THE ANIMA HUMANA 111

(_e_) THE BASIS OF PSYCHIC LIFE 115

III. PSYCHIC LIFE

(_a_) SENSE AND SENSATION 121

(_b_) IMAGINATION 129

(_c_) INTELLECT AND ITS FUNCTIONS 139

(_d_) THE HABITS OF INTELLECT 150

(_e_) THE PASSIONS 153

IV. THE NATURE OF LIFE

(_a_) THE VIS MOTRIX 161

(_b_) LIFE AND DEATH 168

(_c_) THE CONSTITUTION OF ANIMALS 172

PART III. ETHICS

I. ON HAPPINESS 183

II. THE VIRTUES 196

III. ON LIBERTY, FATE, AND DIVINATION 218

IV. ON GOD 224

NOTE ON DECLINATION 230

PART IV. GENERAL REVIEW

I. GASSENDI 245

II. LATER VIEWS 270

INDEX 308

THE WORKS OF GASSENDI

The following is a complete list of the contents of the edition of 1658.

VOLUME I

Syntagma philosophicum.

Liber prooemialis.

Pars prima quae est logica.
I. De origine et varietate logica.
II. De logicae fine.

Institutio logica.
1. De simplice rerum imaginatione.
2. De propositione.
3. De syllogismo.
4. De methodo.

Pars secunda quae est physica.