On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition)

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

§ 1. _The Method._

The divine Plato and the marvellous Kant unite their mighty voices in recommending a rule, to serve as the method of all philosophising as well as of all other science.[11] Two laws, they tell us: the law of _homogeneity_ and the law of _specification_, should be equally observed, neither to the disadvantage of the other. The l...