9 Foreword
  Topic 1.
  PHILOSOPHY, ITS
SUBJECT AND ROLE
IN THE SOCIETY
16 1. Philosophy as a Science
20 2. Basic Question of
Philosophy
25 3. Concept of Method.
Dialectics and
Metaphysics as Opposite
Philosophical Methods
28 4. The Subject-Matter of
Marxist-Leninist
Philosophy
30 5. Partisan Nature of
Philosophy
  Topic 2.
  THE HISTORY OF
PHILOSOPHY AS A
HISTORY OF
STRUGGLE BETWEEN
MATERIALISM AND
IDEALISM
35 1. The Origins of
Materialism and Idealism,
Their Constant Struggle
38 2. The Struggle Between
Materialism and Idealism
in the Slave-Holding
Society
49 3. The Struggle Between
Materialism and Idealism
in Medieval Philosophy
61 4. Materialism in the Epoch
of Ascendant Capitalism,
and Its Struggle Against
Religion and Idealism
70 5. Classical German
Philosophy of the Late
18th and the First Half
of the 19th Century
75 6. The Philosophy of the
Russian Revolutionary
Democrats of the 19th
Century
  Topic 3.
  THE EMERGENCE OF
THE MARXIST–
LENINIST
PHILOSOPHY AND
THE MAIN STAGES
OF ITS
DEVELOPMENT
  1. Prerequisites for the
Emergence of the Marxist
Philosophy
79 [introduction.]
80 a) Socio-economic conditions
81 b) Natural-science prerequisites
86 c) Theoretical prerequisites
88 2. The Essence of the
Revolution in Philosophy
Carried Out by Marx and
Engels
91 3. The Creative Nature of
the Marxist Philosophy
  Topic 4.
  MATTER AND THE
FORMS OF ITS EXISTENCE
97 [introduction.]
97 1. What Is Matter?
103 2. Motion as the Mode of
Existence of Matter
107 3. Space and Time as Forms
of the Existence of Matter
in Motion
111 4. The Material Unity of
the World
  Topic 5.
  CONSCIOUSNESS,
ITS ORIGIN AND ESSENCE
114 [introduction.]
114 1. Pre-Marxian Concepts of
Consciousness
116 2. Consciousness as the
Highest Form of
Reflection
121 3. The Emergence of
Consciousness
127 4. The Essence of
Consciousness
131 5. The Unity of
Consciousness and
Language
  Topic 6.
  DIALECTICS AS A
DOCTRINE OF
UNIVERSAL
CONNECTION AND
DEVELOPMENT
136 1. Materialist Dialectics as a
Science
  2. The Basic Principles of
Dialectics
142 [introduction.]
142 a) The principle of universal
connection. Connection
and interaction
146 b) The principle of development
150 3. Materialist Dialectics as
a Universal Method of
Cognition and
Transformation of
Reality
  Topic 7.
  THE LAWS OF
MATERIALIST
DIALECTICS
160 [introduction.]
160 1. The Law of Unity and
Struggle of Opposites
171 2. The Law of the
Transformation of Quantity
into Quality
180 3. The Law of Negation of
the Negation
  Topic 8.
  THE CATEGORIES OF
MATERIALIST
DIALECTICS
191 [introduction.]
192 1. Individual, Specific and
General (Universal)
196 2. Content and Form
203 3. Essence and Appearance
208 4. Cause and Effect
213 5. Necessity and Chance
219 6. Possibility and Reality
  Topic 9.
  THE THEORY OF
KNOWLEDGE OF
DIALECTICAL -4
MATERIALISM
224 1. Cognition as a Process
of Reflection of Reality
in Human Consciousness
226 2. The Dialectics of
Cognition
234 3. The Marxist-Leninist
Doctrine of Truth
239 4. The Role of Practice in
Cognition
  Topic 10.
  THE METHODS OF
SCIENTIFIC
COGNITION
242 1. The System of Methods
of Scientific Cognition
248 2. Empirical Methods of
Cognition
253 3. Theoretical Methods of
Cognition
274 CONCLUSION
278 PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS IN
COMMON USE
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