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THE ABSOLUTE AND THE INDIVIDUAL: SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY BY PROFESSOR ROYCE
Introduction 135
Part I — The Conception of Reality 141
I. The Consciousness of Reality ..... 144
II. The Possibilities of Experience ..... 149
III. The First Argument for Realism 153
IV. The Second Argument for Realism, and its Idealistic Interpretation . . . . . . . .160
V. The Third Argument for Realism: Transition to Absolute Idealism . . . . . . . • 171
Part II — The Conception of Will and its Relation to the Absolute 182
I. The Essential and the Non-essential Elements of the Will 187
II. The Relation of the Will to the Absolute 193
III. General Review of the Argument . 203
Part III — The Principle of Individuation 217
I. Definition of the Problem 217
II. The Thomistic Theory of Individuation 223
III. The Scotistic Theory of Individuation . 230
IV. Critical Comparison of these Theories . 235
V. The Individual as Undefinable by Thought, and as Unpresentable in Experience 247
VI. The Individual as the Object of an Exclusive Interest 258
VII. The Reality of the Individual 266
VIII. Individuality and Will 268
