ABSTRACT
This highly readable translation of the major works of the 18th- century philosopher Etienne Bonnot, Abbe de Condillac, a disciple of Locke and a contemporary of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot, shows his influence on psychiatric diagnosis as well as on the education of the deaf, the retarded, and the preschool child. Published two hundred years after Condillac's death, this translation contains treatises which were, until now, virtually unavailable in English: A Treatise on Systems, A Treatise of the Sensations, Logic.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part
A Treatise on Systems
chapter |5 pages
Three Sorts of Systems Should be Distinguished
chapter |6 pages
On the Uselessness of Abstract Systems
chapter |6 pages
On the Misuses of Abstract Systems
chapter |4 pages
First and Second Examples of the Misuse of Abstract Systems
chapter |11 pages
Third Example: On the Origin and Development of Divination
chapter |10 pages
Fifth Example: Taken From Malebranche
chapter |21 pages
Sixth Example: Monads
chapter |43 pages
Eighth and Last Example: Spinozism Refuted
chapter |1 pages
Conclusion of the Preceding Chapters
chapter |11 pages
Hypotheses
chapter |4 pages
On the Use of Systems in Physics
chapter |3 pages
On the Use of Systems in the Arts
part |186 pages
A Treatise on the Sensations
part One|49 pages
On Senses That by Themselves do not Judge External Objects
chapter |1 pages
Of the First Knowledge of a Man Limited to the Sense of Smell
chapter |7 pages
The Ideas of a Man Limited to the Sense of Smell
chapter |1 pages
Of the Sleep and Dreams of a Man Limited to the Sense of Smell
chapter |2 pages
Conclusion of the Preceding Chapters
chapter |4 pages
Of a Man Limited to the Sense of Hearing
chapter |2 pages
Of the Senses of Smell and Hearing United
chapter |8 pages
Of a Man Limited to the Sense of Sight
chapter |2 pages
On Sight with Smell, Hearing and Taste
part Two|41 pages
On Touch, or the Only Sense That Judges External Objects on its Own
chapter |11 pages
On the Ideas That a Man Limited to the Sense of Touch Can Acquire
chapter |2 pages
On the Principal Organ of Touch
part Three|41 pages
How Touch Teaches The Other Senses to Judge External Objects
chapter |4 pages
On Touch With Smell
chapter |3 pages
Of Hearing, of Smell and of Touch United
chapter |4 pages
Of a Man Born Blind Whose Cataracts Were Removed
chapter |3 pages
The Idea of Duration Given by Vision Joined with Touch
chapter |2 pages
Of Taste United with Touch
chapter |2 pages
General Observations on the Union of the Five Senses
part Four|33 pages
On the Needs, Skills and Ideas of an Isolated Man Who Enjoys All His Senses
chapter |5 pages
How This Man Learns to Satisfy His Needs with Choice
chapter |2 pages
Of a Man Found in the Forests of Lithuania
chapter |3 pages
Conclusion
part |82 pages
Logic, or the First Developments of the Art of Thinking
part One|36 pages
How Nature Itself Teaches us to Analyze; and How with this Method we Explain the Origin and Development of Either Ideas or the Faculties of the Mind
chapter |4 pages
How Nature Gives Us Our First Lessons in the Art of Thinking
chapter |3 pages
Analysis Forms Sound Minds
chapter |2 pages
Ideas of Things that do not Excite the Senses
chapter |2 pages
Continuation of the Same Subject
chapter |4 pages
Analysis of the Faculties of the Mind
chapter |2 pages
Continuation of the Same Subject
chapter |8 pages
Of the Causes of Sensibility and Memory
part Two|42 pages
Analysis Considered in its Means and Effects, or the Art of Reasoning Reduced to a Well-Formed Language
