Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index
Translator's introduction -- Introduction / Gertrude Reif Hughes -- Preface to the revised edition, 1918 -- Part I : Theory : Knowledge of freedom -- Conscious human action ; Fundamental urge for knowledge ; Thinking in the service of understanding the world ; World as percept ; Knowing the world ; Human individuality ; Are there limits to cognition? -- Part II : Reality of freedom -- Factors of life ; Idea of freedom ; Freedom-philosophy and monism ; World purpose and life purpose (human destiny) ; Moral imagination (Darwinism and ethics) ; Value of life (pessimism and optimism) ; Individuality and genus -- Final questions -- Consequences of monism