Institutes of Metaphysic (Classic Reprint): The Theory of Knowing and Being - Couverture souple

James Frederick Ferrier

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440099677 ISBN 13 : 9781440099670

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore a rigorous new system for understanding knowledge and reality.

This work presents a cohesive method for metaphysics, focusing on how we know, what knowledge entails, and how the mind and world relate. Structured around three core sections, it argues for clear distinctions and decisive demonstrations as the path to truth. Ferrier outlines the book as a methodical inquiry into thinking, knowledge, and being. It frames epistemology, agnoiology, and ontology as essential divisions, each explained with propositions, counter-propositions, and careful observations. The aim is a theory that unites truth and demonstration while clarifying long-standing philosophical questions.

• The primary law of knowledge and how reason tests its claims.
• How the object of knowledge relates to the knowing subject, and why they resist simple separation.
• Arguments about matter per se, its qualities, and the limits of common views.
• The imagined structure of philosophy’s starting points and the method that keeps divisions distinct.

Ideal for readers of metaphysical systems, epistemology, and the history of philosophy who seek a structured, argument-led approach to understanding knowledge and reality.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Along with whatever any intelligence knows, it must, as the ground or condition of its knowle'dge, have some cognisance of itself. OBSERVA'froXS AND F.XPLA~ A'froNS, 1. Self or the " me" is the common centre, the continually known rallying-point, in whieb all our Prop. I. an· - . slVers the cognitions meet and agree. It is the ens unum, et fim qU~8tion 01 philOSO, SernpC?' cognit(~m, in omnibus notitiis. Its apprehcn- phy, sion is essential to the existence of our, and of all, knowledge. And thus Proposition I. forms an explicit answer to the question laid down in the Introduction (§ 85) as the first question of philosophy: "Vhat is the one feature present in all our knowledge,- the common point in which all our cognitions unite and agree,-the clement in which they are identiEl.? The ego is this feature, point, or element: it is the common centre which is at all

Table of Contents

INTRODUO'l'1 0 Y; 1 The word philoaophy ns here employed, 1; 2 The two main requisitions of philosophy, · ib; 3 Yllich of them Is the more stringent, 2; 4 The value of systems determined ),y a reference to these requisitions, tb; 5 An IInreasoned "ystell1 of DO value, Ilecauso at vnriaDce with definition; of philoopny, io; 6 Recause, though troo, it ca1lnot be certain, 3; 7 Because of DO use as a mental discipliue, · ib; 8 A reasoned sYijtem, though not tnle, has 30me value as all exercise of; reason, ib; 9 It compli~s more closely with definition of philosophy thM the other, "; 10 nut a system should be both true and reasoned, fb; 11 Systems of pllilosophy are unreasoned, 5; 12 The present state of IlhiJosophy described, a; 13 First, How i this st"te to be e:rplained 9 Secondly, How remed;ecl f 6; H First, it i explained (§§ 14·31) by pbilosophy not being reasoned, 7; 15 No good can be expected SO long as philosopby is not reasolled,

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440099677
• ISBN 13: 9781440099670
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 573
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