Index of Contents of the Folders in " Dialectics of Nature "
[First Folder] Dialectics and Natural Science
1) Büchner (pp. 482-88) 2) Dialectics of natural science (pp. 527-28) 3) Divisibility (pp. 524-25) 4) Cohesion (pp. 563-64) 5) States of aggregation (pp. 563-64) 6) Secchi and the Pope (p. 555) 7) Newtonian attraction and centrifugal force (p. 551) 8) Laplace's theory (pp. 552-53) 9) Friction and impact produce an internal motion (p. 569) 10) Causa finalis—matter and its inherent motion (p. 522) 11) The form of development of natural science, in so far as it thinks, is the hypothesis (pp. 519-21) 12) The transformation of attraction into repulsion and vice versa (pp. 523-24) 13) The character of mutual opposites belonging to the thought determinations of reason (p. 494) 14) For one who denies causality every natural law is a hypothesis (p. 512) 15) The thing-in-itself (pp. 520-21) 16) The true nature of the determinations of "essence" is expressed by Hegel himself (p. 494) 17) The so-called axioms of mathematics (pp. 536-37)
19) Abstract identity (pp. 495-96) 20) Positive and negative (p. 497) 21) Life and death (p. 572) 22) Bad infinity (pp. 516-17) 23) Simple and compound (pp. 494-95) 24) Primordial matter (p. 522) 25) The incorrect theory of porosity ... is presented by Hegel as a pure figment of the mind (p. 487) 26) Force. If any kind of motion... (pp. 559-61) 27) The indestructibility of motion in Descartes' principle (p. 525) 28) Its essence (of motion) is to be the immediate unity of space and time... (pp. 524-25) 29) Force (see above) (p. 561) 30) Motion and equilibrium (pp. 525-26) 31) Causality (pp. 510-11) 32) Newtonian gravitation (pp. 551-52) 33) Force. The negative side also has to be analysed... (p. 561) 34) Reciprocal action (pp. 511-12) 35) The indestructibility of motion (p. 525) 36) Mechanical motion (p. 527) 37) The divisibility of matter (p. 524) 38) Natural-scientific thought (p. 488) 39) Induction and deduction (pp. 506-07) 40) In Oken ... the nonsense ... is evident (p. 488) 41) Causae finales and efficientes (pp. 489-90) 42) God is nowhere treated worse than by the natural scientists who believe in him (pp. 480-81) 43) Rudiments in nature (p. 586) 44) Unity of nature and mind (p. 502) 45) Classification of the sciences (pp. 527-29) 46) At the end of the last century (pp. 528-29) 47) Protista (pp. 579-81) 48) The individual (p. 581) 49) Repetition of morphological forms at all stages of evolution (p. 582) 50) For the entire evolution of organisms (p. 582) 51) The whole of organic nature is one continuous proof of the identity or inseparability of form and content (pp. 581-82) 52) The kinetic theory of gases (p. 564) 53) The law of identity (p. 496) 54) Natural scientists believe that they free themselves from philosophy by ignoring it or abusing it (pp. 490-91) 55) Historical (pp. 473-76) 56) The character of mutual opposition belonging to theoretical development (pp. 564-65) 57) Generatio aequivoca (pp. 573-74) 58) Force. Hegel... (p. 558) 59) Haeckel, Anthropogenie (p. 489) „ 60) Mayer, Mechanische Theorie der Wärme (p. 556)
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65) Mathematics (p. 536) 66) Asymptotes (p. 542) 67) Zero powers (p. 541) 68) Straight and curved (pp. 542-43) 69) Ether (p. 565) 70) Vertebrates (p. 585) 71) Radiation of heat into universal space (p. 561) 72) Newton's parallelogram of forces (p. 552) 73) Bathybius (p. 581) 74) Understanding and reason (p. 503) . 75) To the Pan-Inductionists (p. 508)
76) The kinetic theory (p. 564) 77) Clausius — if correct — proves... (pp. 562-63) 78) The notion of an actual chemically uniform matter (p. 570) 79) Hard and fast lines (pp. 493-94) 80) Dialectics, so called objective dialectics, prevails throughout nature (pp. 492-93) 81) The struggle for life (pp. 583-85) 82) Light and darkness (pp. 565-66)
" 83) Work (pp. 586-87)
84) Induction and analysis (p. 509) 85) The successive development of the separate branches of natural science should be studied (pp. 465-66) 86) Clausius' second law ... however it may be formulated (p. 563) 87) Difference between the situation at the end of the ancient world and at the end of the Middle Ages (pp. 471-72) 88) Historical material.—Inventions (pp. 472-73) 89) Mädler, The Fixed Stars (pp. 552-54) 90) Nebulae (pp. 554-55) 91) Secchi: Sirius (p. 555) 92) Dialectics of Nature—references (p. 579) 93) The eternal laws of nature (pp. 517-18)
* Slavery (pp. 608-09) * Modern socialism (pp. 591-95)
94) Cognition (pp. 519-20) 95) [On the classification of judgements] (pp. 503-06) 96) Individuality, particularity, universality (p. 506) 97) Above, however, it has also been proved... (p. 506) 98) Hof mann ... cites the philosophy of nature (p. 488) 99) Haeckel's nonsense: induction against deduction (p. 507) 100) By induction it was discovered 100 years ago... (pp. 507-08) 101) The ancients' outlook on nature (pp. 467-70) 102) Leucippus and Democritus (pp. 470-71) 103) Natural scientists may adopt whatever attitude they please, they are still under the domination of philosophy (p. 491) 104) Application of mathematics (p. 550) 105) The differential calculus... (pp. 549-50) 106) That positive and negative are equivalent... (p. 497)
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107) Chance and necessity (pp. 498-501)
* Fourier, New Industrial and Social World (p. 612) 108) Polarisation (pp. 497-98) 109) Polarity (p. 497) 110) Another example of polarity in Haeckel (pp. 489-90) 111) Valuable self-criticism of the Kantian thing-in-itself (p. 521) 112) When Hegel makes the transition from life to cognition... (p. 585) 113) According to Hegel, infinite progress is a barren waste (p. 517) 114) Quantity and quality (pp. 537-38) 115) Number (p. 538) 116) Mathematics (p. 542) 117) Conservation of energy (p. 558) 118) At absolute 0° no gas is possible (p. 564) 119) mv% has been proved also for gas molecules (p. 564) 120)\/—1.—The negative magnitudes of algebra (pp. 541-42) 121) The transformation of quantity into quality (p. 494) 122) Identity and difference (p. 497) 123) Just as Fourier is a mathematical poem (p. 487) 124) Hegel's conception of force and its manifestation, of cause and effect as identical... (p. 558) 125) The development of a concept, or of a conceptual relation ... in the history of thought (p. 502) 126) Abstract and concrete (p. 503) 127) The significance of names (p. 571) 128) In the first place, Kekulé (pp. 534-35)
[Second Folder]
The Investigation of Nature and Dialectics
[Contents of the second folder] (p. 588) 1) On the Prototypes of the Mathematical Infinite in the Real World (pp. 544-49) 2) On the "Mechanical" Conception of Nature (pp. 530-34) 3) On Nägeli's Incapacity to Know the Infinite (pp. 512-16) 4) Old Preface to [Anti]-Diihring. On Dialectics (pp. 336-44) 5) The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man (pp. 452-64) 6) Omitted from "Feuerbach" (pp. 476-80)
[Third Folder]
Dialectics of Nature
[Contents of the third folder] (p. 588) 1) Basic Forms of Motion (pp. 362-77) 2) The Measure of Motion.—Work (pp. 378-91) 3) Electricity (pp. 402-51) 4) Natural Science in the Spirit World (pp. 345-55) 5) Introduction (pp. 318-35) 6) Tidal Friction (pp. 392-96)
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[Fourth Folder]
Mathematics and Natural Science. Miscellaneous
Dialectics (pp. 356-61) Heat (pp. 397-401) Hegel, Logik, Bd. I (pp. 501-02) [Mathematical calculations — 5 pages] Hegel, Enzyklopädie, I (p. 487) Gravity as the most general determination of materiality is commonly accepted (pp. 522-23) Impact and friction (p. 557) Descartes discovered that the ebb and flow of the tides are caused by the attraction of the moon (p. 556)
Theory and empiricism (pp. 488-89) Aristarchus of Samos (p. 471) A pretty example of the dialectics of nature is... (p. 569) The contempt of the empiricists for the Greeks receives a peculiar illustration... (p. 489) Attraction and gravitation (pp. 523-24) The first, naïve outlook is as a rule more correct than the later, metaphysical one (pp. 557-58) The geocentric standpoint in astronomy is prejudiced and has rightly been abolished (pp. 518-19)
How litde Comte can have been the author of his encyclopaedic arrangement of the natural sciences... (p. 529) Physiography (p. 530) The new epoch begins in chemistry with atomistics (pp. 570-71) Hegel constructs the theory of light and colour out of pure thought (p. 566) Zero, because it is the negation of any definite quantity, is not therefore devoid of content (pp. 539-41)
One (pp. 538-39) Static and dynamic electricity (pp. 568-69) When Coulomb says... (pp. 566-68)
Electricity (pp. 565-67) Hegel's division (the original one) into mechanics, chemics, and organics (pp. 529-30) Electro-chemistry (p. 569) How old ... methods become transferred to other branches (p. 570) [Outline of the Part Plan] (p. 317) Conclusion for Thomson, Clausius, Loschmidt (p. 563)
Molecule and differential (p. 544) Force and conservation of force (p. 558) Trigonometry (pp. 543-44) The consumption of kinetic energy (p. 557) In the motion of gases ... the motion of masses passes directly into molecular motion (p. 563) [Mathematical calculations] The Darwinian theory to be demonstrated as ... (p. 582) What Hegel calls reciprocal action is the organic body (p. 585)
Transformation of quantity into quality (p. 571)
37) If Hegel regards nature as a manifestation of the eternal "idea" in its alienation ... (pp. 487-88) J 38) The empiricism of observation alone can never adequately prove necessity (pp. 509-10) 39) Ad vocem Nägeli (p. 516) 40) The struggle for existence (pp. 582-83) 41) Motion of the heavenly bodies (p. 526) [Mathematical calculations — two pages] [Note on F. Pauli] 42) [Outline of the General Plan] (pp. 313-14)