INDEX 



(Compiled by the Translator) 



Abolition of everything a self- 

 contradiction, 280, 283, 296, 

 298 

 Idea of, 279, 282, 283, 295, 296. 

 See Nought 

 Absence of order, 231, 234, 274. 



See Disorder 

 Absolute and freedom, 277 



reality, 99, 228-9, 269, 358, 361 

 reality of the person, 269 

 time and the, 239, 240, 298, 340, 

 344 

 Absoluteness of duration, 206 

 of understanding, xl, 47, 152, 

 190, 197, 199 

 Abstract becoming, 304-7 

 multiplicity, 257-9 

 time, 9, 17, 20-2, 37, 39, 46, 61, 

 163, 318-9, 336, 352-3 

 Accident and essence In Aris- 

 totle's philosophy, 353 

 in evolution, 86-7, 104, 114-5, 

 127, 169, 170, 252, 254-5, 266, 

 267, 326-7 

 Accidental variations, 55, 63, 68, 



69, 74, 85-6, 168 

 Accumulation of energy, function 

 of vegetable organisms, 253, 

 255 

 Achilles and tortoise, in Zeno, 



311, 312-3 

 Acquired characters, inheritance 

 of, 76-9, 83-4, 87, 169, 170, 173, 

 231 

 Act, consciousness as inadequacy 

 of, to representation, 144 

 form (or essence), quality, 

 three classes of representa- 

 tion, 302-3 

 Action, creativeness of free, 192, 

 247 

 and concepts, 160, 297 

 and consciousness, xiil, 5, 143- 



4, 145, 179-80, 207, 262 

 discontinuity of, 154, 307 

 freedom of, in animals, 130 

 as function of nervous system, 

 262-3 



Action (Continued) 

 Indivisibility of, 94, 95, 308-9 

 and inert matter, 96, 136, 141-2, 



156, 187, 198, 226, 366 

 Instinct and, 136, 141 

 instrument of, consciousness, 



180 

 instrument of, life, 162 

 instrument of matter, 161, 198-9 

 as Instrument of consciousness, 



180 

 and intellect. See Intellect and 



action 

 intensity of consciousness varies 



with ratio of possible, to 



real, 145 

 meaning of, 301-3 

 moves from want to fulness, 



297, 298 

 organism a machine for, 252, 



254, 300 

 and perception, 5, 11, 12, 93, 



188, 189, 206, 227-30, 300, 307, 



368 

 possible, 12, 13, 96, 144, 145, 



146-7, 159, 165, 179-81, 188, 



264 

 and science, 93, 195-6, 198-9, 



329-30 

 and space, 203 

 sphere of the intellect, 155 

 tension In a free, 200, 207, 238, 



240, 301-2 

 Activity, dissatisfaction the start- 

 ing-point of, 297 

 of instinct, continuous with 



vital process, 139, 140 

 life as, 128-9, 247 

 mutually inverse factors in 



vital, 248 

 and nervous system, 110, 130, 



132-3, 134-5, 180, 252, 261-3 

 organism as, 174 

 potential. See Action, possible 

 tension of free, 200, 202, 207-8, 



223-4, 237, 239, 300-1 

 and torpor in evolution, 109, 



111, 113, 114, 119-20, 129-30, 



