Table of Contents
I Introduction 5
II Pure Reason or the Faculty of Thought in General 17
III The Nature of Things 33
IV The Practice of Reason in Physical Science 53
a Cause and Effect 56
b Matter and Mind 66
c Force and Matter 70
V "Practical Reason" or Morality 77
a The Wise and Reasonable 77
b Morality and Right 85
c The Holy 96
A Dietzgen Biography 111
Cosmic Dialectics: The Libertarian Philosophy of Joseph Dietzgen Larry Gambone
Thinking About Thinking 115
Contradiction Inherent in Thought 117
The Limitations of Our Knowledge 118
The Importance of Error 119
Thought Must Have an Object 120
Idealism vs. Materialism 121
Dietzgen's Critique of Bourgeois Materialism 122
The Essential Unity of the World 124
Cause and Effect 126
The Problem of Language 127
Science vs. Scientism 128
Dietzgen's Individualism 130
Dietzgen's Concept of History 130
Dietzgen and the Spiritual 132
Dietzgen's Politics 134
Economics 135
A Dietzgen Bibliography 140