A Christian View of Men and Things. A Treatise Showing that Social Stability Demands a Christian Society. The Payton Lectures delivered in condensed form at the Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, 1951.

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION.
The Purpose and LImits of This Book.
The Questions of Philosophy.
The Unity of Truth.
Method: The Law of Contradiction.
Method: Choice.

II. THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.
Karl Marx.
The Philosophy of Progress.
Spengler and Toynbee.
An Appraisal.
The Significance of History.
A Christian Philosophy of History.

III. THE PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS.
Normative versus Descriptive Politics.
The Function of Government.
Analysis and Criticism.
Justification of Coercion.
The Consent of the Governed.
A Theistic View.

IV. ETHICS.
Classification of Sciences.
The Question of Ethics.
Teleological Ethics.
Egoism.
Utilitarianism.
Ateleleological Ethics.
Kant.
The Ethics of Revelation.

V. SCIENCE.
Science and Knowledge.
Facts, Laws, and Verification.
Formation of Concepts.
Mechanical Model.
Physics, History, and Ethics.
Conclusion.

VI. RELIGION.
Method.
Value.
Is God Essential to Religion?
Can God Be Known?
Good and Evil.
Absolute Theism.
A Finite God.

VII. EPISTEMOLOGY.
Skepticism.
Relativism.
Empiricism.
Apriorism.
The Theistic World.
Conclusion.