The Spirit of Modern Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Conway, Moncure Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1451003838 ISBN 13 : 9781451003833

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

THE SPIRIT 01 MODERN PHILOSOPHY. LECTURE I. general introduction, In the following course of lectures I shall try to sugv gest, in a fashion suited to the general student, something about the men, the problems, and the issues that seem to me most interesting in a limited, but highly representative portion of the history of modern philosophy. I undertake this work with a keen sense of the limitations of my time and my powers. I plead as excuse only my desire to interest some of my fellow-students in the great concerns of philosophy. i. The assumption upon which these lectures are based is one that I may as well set forth at the very beginning. It is the assumption that Philosophy, in the proper sense of the term, is not a presumptuous effort to explain the mysteries of the world by means of any superhuman insight or extraordinary cunning, but has its origin and value in an attempt to give a reasonable account of our own personal attitude towards the more serious business of life. Y

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; LECTURE SXSB; L General Inteoduction1; PART I STUDIES OF THINKERS AND PKOBLEMS; IL The Periods of Modern Philosophy; Characteristics of the First Period; Illustration by means of the Religious Aspect of Sfinozism27; III The Rediscovery of the Inner Life ; From Spinoza to; Kant68; IT Kant101; V Fichte135; VI The Romantic School in Philosophy164; VII Hegel190; VIII schopenhauer 228; IX The Rise of the Doctrine of Evolution265; PART II SUGGESTIONS OF DOCTRINE; X Nature and Evolution; The Outer World and its; Paradox 311; XI Reality and Idealism; The Inner World and its; Meaning341; XII Physical Law and Freedom; The World of Descrip-; tion and the World of Appreciation381; XIII Optimism, Pessimism and the Moral Order43S; Appendix A Syllabus of the Lectures473; Appendix B On Kant's Transcendental Deduction of th

Biographie de l'auteur :

Josiah Royce was an American objective idealist philosopher. Royce, born in Grass Valley, California, on November 20, 1855. He was the son of Josiah and Sarah Eleanor (Bayliss) Royce, whose families were recent English emigrants, and who sought their fortune in the westward movement of the American pioneers in 1849.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1451003838
• ISBN 13: 9781451003833
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 536