| Description |
xii, 331 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Lectures ... given at Harvard university in the first half of the academic year 1936-37"--Foreword. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-324). |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The mediæval experiment: Logicism and philosophy -- Theologism and philosophy -- The road to scepticism -- The breakdown of mediæval philosophy -- pt. 2. The Cartesian experiment: Cartesian mathematicism -- Cartesian spiritualism -- Cartesian idealism -- The breakdown of Cartesianism -- pt. 3. The modern experiment: The physicism of Kant -- The sociologism of A. Comte -- The breakdown of modern philosophy -- pt. 4. The nature and unity of philosophical experience: The nature and unity of philosophical experience. |
| Summary |
"It is the proper aim and scope of the present book to show that the history of philosophy makes philosophical sense, and to define its meaning in regard to the nature of philosophical knowledge itself. For that reason, the various doctrines, as well as the definite parts of those doctrines, which have been taken into account in this volume, should not be considered as arbitrarily selected fragments from some abridged description of medieval and modern philosophy, but as a series of concrete philosophical experiments especially chosen for their dogmatic significance. Each of them represents a definite attempt to deal with philosophical knowledge according to a certain method, and all of them, taken together, make up a philosophical experience. The fact that all those experiments have yielded the same result will, as I hope, justify the common conclusion ... that there is a centuries-long experience of what philosophical knowledge is--and that such an experience exhibits a remarkable unity." [Foreword]. |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Experience -- History.
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Experience (OCoLC)fst00918379
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6
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Geschichte 500-1930.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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