- Chapter 1 - On Divine Perfection, and That God Does Everything in the Most Desirable Way
- Chapter 2 - Against Those Who Hold That There Is in the Works of God No Goodness or That the Principles of Goodness and Beauty Are Arbitrary
- Chapter 3 - Against Those Who Think That God Might Have Made Things Better Than He Has
- Chapter 4 - That Love for God Demands on Our Part Complete Satisfaction With and Acquiescence in That Which He Has Done
- Chapter 5 - In What the Principles of the Divine Perfection Consist, and That the Simplicity of the Means of Counterbalances the Richness of the Effects
- Chapter 6 - That God Does Nothing Which Is Not Orderly, and That It Is Not Even Possible to Conceive of Events Which Are Not Regular
- Chapter 7 - That Miracles Conform to the Regular Order Although They Go Against the Subordinate Regulations; Concering That Which God Desires or Permits and Concerning General and Particular Intentions
- Chapter 8 - In Order to Distinguish Between the Activities of God and the Activities of Created Things We Must Explain the Conception of an Individual Substance
- Chapter 9 - That Every Individual Substance Expresses the Whole Universe in Its Own Manner and That in Its Full Concept Is Included All Its Experiences Together With All the Attendent Circumstances and the Whole Sequences of Exterior Events
- Chapter 10 - That the Belief in Substantial Forms Has a Certain Basis in Fact, but That These Forms Effect No Changes in the Phenomena and Must Not Be Employed for the Explanation of Particular Events
- Chapter 11 - That the Opinions of the Theologians and of the So Called Scholastic Philosophers Are Not to Be Wholly Despised
- Chapter 12 - That the Conception of the Extension of a Body Is in a Way Imaginary and Does Not Constitue the Substance of the Body
- Chapter 13 - As the Individual Concept of Each Person Includes Once for All Everything Which Can Ever Happen to Him, in It Can Be Seen, a Priori the Evidences or the Reasons for the Reality of Each Event, and Why One Happened Sooner Than the Other
- Chapter 14 - God Produces Different Substances According to the Different Views Which He Has of the World
- Chapter 15 - The Action of One Finite Substance Upon Another Consists Only in the Increase in the Degrees of the Expression of the First Combined With a Decrease in That of the Second Insofar as God Has in Advance Fashioned Them So That They Shall Act in Accord
- Chapter 16 - The Extraordinary Intervention of God Is Included in What Our Particular Essence Express Because Their Expression Includes Everything
- Chapter 17 - An Example of a Subordinate Regulation in the Law of Nature Which Demonstrates That God Always Preserves the Same Amount of Force in a Regular Way but Not the Same Quantity of Motion
- Chapter 18 - The Distinction Between Force and the Quantity of Motion Is Important, Among Other Reasons, as Showing That We Must Have Recourse to Metaphysical Considerations in Addition to Discussions of Extension if We Wish to Explain the Phenomena of Matter
- Chapter 19 - The Utility of Final Causes in Physics
- Chapter 20 - A Noteworthy Disquisition by Socrates in Plato's Phaedo Against Philosophers Who Were Too Materialistic
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