Marxism and the Irrationalists

John Lewis


I   Idealism and Materialism, What are they? 1
II   Why Berkeley was wrong 10
III   The Refutation of Mechanistic Materialism 28
IV   What is Matter? 40
V   The Rational Order of Nature 46
VI   The Roots of Sanity 53
VII   The Nature of the Supernatural 61
VIII   Witchcraft and the Professors 72
IX   The Death and Resurrection of Idealism 84
X   Science and the System of Nature 98
XI   Fact or Fiction 110
XII   Marxism and the Changing World 124
XIII   Man and Nature 132


INDEX

 

ARDLEY, 24

Aristotle, 130

Atoms, 119

Avenarius, 46

Ayer, 58, 111

 

BACON, 119, 128

Baillie, John, 63 ff

Berkeley, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 29, 90, 91

Bosanquet, 85, 86, 136

Bradley, 85

Broad, 75 ff

 

CAUSALITY, 53 ff

Chernyshevsky, 1

Chesterton, 69

Collingwood, 80

Contingency, 58

Cornforth, 20, 109, 116

 

DEWEY, 111

Dialectical Materialism, 3, 6

Dingle, 8, 23, 24, 81, 82, 110, 118, 125, 126

Dualism, 31

Dunham, Barrows, 124,125, 133

 

ECONOMICS, 95

Eddington, 40, 118

Eliot, T. S., 64, 67

Empiricism, 59, 102 ff, 106

Engels, 13, 37, 126, 127

Ethics, 92

Evans-Pritchard, 72, 122

Explanation, 48 ff, 56

 

FORSTER, E. M., 83, 93




WALKER, KENNETH, 64

Whitehead, 7, 12, 60

Willey, Basil, 64

Witchcraft, 122

Woodbridge, 134

Woodger, 100

HEGEL, 84

Hippocrates, 70

Hulme, T. E., 100

Hume, 47, 53 ff, 102

Hypothesis, 105, 107

 

IDEALISM, 2, 4, 6, 7, 11 ff, 41, 84 ff

Irrationalism, 5, 25, 44, 99

 

JAMES, 112

Jeans, Sir James, 7, 41, 111

Joad, 40, 47

KANT, 17, 24, 51-2

 

Keynes, 93

Knowledge, 15, 16 ff

LABRIOLA, 138

 

Laski, 61, 62

Law, 46, 49, 108

Lenin, 17, 23, 26, 27, 42, 115, 116, 126

Levels, 34 ff

Lewis, C. S., 64

Logic, 128

 

MACH, 9, 46, 48, 95, 101

Mackinnon, 139

Marx, 13

Matter, 21, 35, 40 ff

Mechanism, 31, 38, 39

Metaphysics, 32, 33, 127

Mill, 86

Mind, 38

Molecules, 119

Moore, 86 ff

NATURE 32, 57, 108, 133

Needham, 34

Nott, Kathleen, 65, 66

 

PEARSON, KARL, 46

Perception, 18, 28 ff.

Plato, 3, 130

Poetry, 81

Polanyi, 72 ff, 122

Pragmatism, 74, 112 ff

 

RAVEN, 68

Reason, 6, 7

Royce, 85

Russell, Bertrand, 8, 28, 29, 83, 89, 98

Ryle, 77

 

SANTAYANA, 62

Sartre, 96

Sayers, Dorothy, 64

Scepticism, 23

Science, 63

Sinclair, 15, 17, 18

Spencer, 86

Stalin, 3

Stebbing, 2, 41, 59

Supernatural, 61, 64, 70, 71

 

THOUGHT, 38

Truth, 16 ff, 20, 22, 26, 27

 

UNIFORMITY OF NATURE, 108

 

VAIHINGER, 100, 110

 



SOURCE: Lewis, John. Marxism and the Irrationalists. London: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1955. Contents. Index, pp. 140-141.


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