The First Question -- our weakness - how am I to think? -- is it necessary for me to know? -- Aristotle, Decartes, and Gassendi -- beasts -- experience -- substance -- narrow limits -- impossible discoveries -- the foundation of despair -- doubt -- am I free? -- is everything eternal? -- intelligence -- eternity -- incomprehensibility -- infinity -- my dependence -- eternity again -- my dependence again -- a fresh question -- a sole supreme artist -- absurdities -- of the best of worlds -- monads -- plastic forms -- Locke -- what have I thus far learned? -- is there any morality? real utility: the notion of justice -- is universal consent a proof of truth? -- against Locke -- against Locke -- nature everywhere the same -- confucius -- epicurus -- the Stoics -- philosophy is virtue -- Aesop -- peace, the offspring of philosophy -- questions -- other questions -- ignorance -- other kinds of ignorance -- greater ignorance -- ridiculous ignorance -- worse than ignorance -- the dawn of reason.

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