INTRODUCTION

THE SUBJECT OF THIS WORK, ITS METHOD AND ANTECEDENTS Pages 1-32
Progress is relative to an ideal which reflection
creates.--Efficacious reflection is reason.--The Life of Reason a
name for all practical thought and all action justified by its
fruits in consciousness.--- It is the sum of Art.--It has a natural
basis which makes it definable.--Modern philosophy not
helpful.--Positivism no positive ideal.--Christian philosophy
mythical: it misrepresents facts and conditions.--Liberal theology
a superstitious attitude toward a natural world.--The Greeks
thought straight in both physics and morals.--Heraclitus and the
immediate.--Democritus and the naturally intelligible.--Socrates
and the autonomy of mind.--Plato gave the ideal its full
expression.--Aristotle supplied its natural basis.--Philosophy thus
complete, yet in need of restatement.--Plato's myths in lieu of
physics.--Aristotle's final causes.--Modern science can avoid such
expedients.--Transcendentalism true but inconsequential.--Verbal
ethics.--Spinoza and the Life of Reason.--Modern and classic
sources of inspiration


REASON IN COMMON SENSE

CHAPTER I--THE BIRTH OF REASON Pages 35-47
Existence always has an Order, called Chaos when incompatible with
a chosen good.--Absolute order, or truth, is static, impotent,
indifferent.--In experience order is relative to interests which
determine the moral status of all powers.--The discovered
conditions of reason not its beginning.--The flux first.--Life the