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Rh CHAPTER VI

Psychology and "psychologismus"—Value of memory—Theory of memory—Doctrines of practice and of association—Confusion with recognition—Memory peculiar to man—Moral significance—Lies—Transition to logic—Memory and the principle of identity—Memory and the syllogism—Woman non-logical and non-ethical—Intellectual and moral knowledge—The intelligible ego

CHAPTER VII

Critics of the conception of the Ego—Hume: Lichtenberg, Mach—The ego of Mach and biology—Individuation and individuality—Logic and ethics as witnesses for the existence of the ego—Logic—Laws of identity and of contraries—Their use and significance—Logical axioms as the laws of essence—Kant and Fichte—Freedom of thought and freedom of the will—Ethics—Relation to logic—The psychology of the Kantian ethics—Kant and Nietzsche

CHAPTER VIII

Characterology and the belief in the "I"—Awakening of the ego—Jean Paul, Novalis, Schelling—The awakening of the ego and the view of the world—Self-consciousness and arrogance—The view of the genius to be more highly valued than that of other men—Final statements as to the idea of genius—The personality of the genius as the perfectly-conscious microcosm—The naturally-synthetic activity of genius—Significant and symbolical—Definition of the genius in relation to ordinary men—Universality as freedom—Morality or immorality of genius?—Duties towards self and others—What duty to another is—Criticism of moral sympathy and social ethics—Understanding of other men as the one require-