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Description:PREFACE.IT has not been my purpose in this work to write a com plete History of Modern Philosophy. Such an undertaking, if fitly carried out, would far exceed the limits within which I wished to keep, and would compel me to enter into some wearisome details. I have endeavored to present a full anal ysis and criticism of the systems only of those great think ers whose writings have permanently influenced the course of European thought, paying most attention to the earlier French and later German philosophers, with whom com paratively few English readers are at all familiar. Hence I have said little about Hobbes or Locke, Hume, Reid, or Hamilton, whose writings are accessible to all, and who ought not to be studied by thoughtful and earnest inquirers at second hand. But the great names of Descartes, Spinoza, and Malebranche, of Leibnitz and Kant, of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, are little more than names with most English students, even including many of those who assume to weigh their systems against each other and to dogmatize respect ing their merits and defects. Perhaps the experience of one whose duty it has been for many years to lecture upon their writings to large classes of University students may have been valuable, in so far as it has induced the endeavor to make intelligible what is abstruse and obscure, and to render a discussion interesting which may appear at first sight re pulsive, though it is really important and profound. I be lieve that Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, to mention noothers, have not been fairly appreciated by English students of philosophy, because they have not been thoroughly un derstood, probably for the reason that metaphysical thought on the Continent of Europe generally assumes a pedantic and technical garb to which the countrymen of Locke and Berkeley are not habituated, and for which they have an instinctive dislike. A translation of their works, however faithfully executed, is even more obscure than the original, as it sacrifices the advantage which one who studies them in German possesses through the etymology of the technical terms, which often reflects much light upon their meaning and upon the general course of thought. My purpose has been to furnish an exposition of their systems which should be intelligible throughout, and also comprehensive enough to enable the student to form a fair estimate of their excel lences and defects, and even, if he wishes, to peruse with little difficulty the works themselves, either in the original or in an English translation. In particular, I have endeav ored to give a complete analysis and explanation of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason;'' for one who lias fairly mas tered this great work holds the key to all German meta physics.One who publishes a treatise upon Modern Philosophy, however, may reasonably aspire to be something more than a commentator. Aiming to be thorough and impartial in setting forth the opinions of others, I have also held it to bo a duty frankly to avow and earnestly to defend the whole doctrine which appeared to me to be just and true, whether it was also of good report or not. No one can be an earnest student of Philosophy without arriving at definite convic tions respecting the fundamental truths of Theology. In my own case, nearly forty years of diligent inquiry and re flection concerning these truths have served only to enlarge and confirm the convictions with which I began, and which are inculcated in this book. Earnestly desiring to avoidprejudice on either side, and to welcome evidence and argu ment from whatever source they might come, without pro fessional bias, and free from any external inducement to teach one set of opinions rather than another, I have faith fully studied most of what the philosophy of these modern times and the science of our own day assume to teach.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann. To get started finding Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: PREFACE.IT has not been my purpose in this work to write a com plete History of Modern Philosophy. Such an undertaking, if fitly carried out, would far exceed the limits within which I wished to keep, and would compel me to enter into some wearisome details. I have endeavored to present a full anal ysis and criticism of the systems only of those great think ers whose writings have permanently influenced the course of European thought, paying most attention to the earlier French and later German philosophers, with whom com paratively few English readers are at all familiar. Hence I have said little about Hobbes or Locke, Hume, Reid, or Hamilton, whose writings are accessible to all, and who ought not to be studied by thoughtful and earnest inquirers at second hand. But the great names of Descartes, Spinoza, and Malebranche, of Leibnitz and Kant, of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, are little more than names with most English students, even including many of those who assume to weigh their systems against each other and to dogmatize respect ing their merits and defects. Perhaps the experience of one whose duty it has been for many years to lecture upon their writings to large classes of University students may have been valuable, in so far as it has induced the endeavor to make intelligible what is abstruse and obscure, and to render a discussion interesting which may appear at first sight re pulsive, though it is really important and profound. I be lieve that Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, to mention noothers, have not been fairly appreciated by English students of philosophy, because they have not been thoroughly un derstood, probably for the reason that metaphysical thought on the Continent of Europe generally assumes a pedantic and technical garb to which the countrymen of Locke and Berkeley are not habituated, and for which they have an instinctive dislike. A translation of their works, however faithfully executed, is even more obscure than the original, as it sacrifices the advantage which one who studies them in German possesses through the etymology of the technical terms, which often reflects much light upon their meaning and upon the general course of thought. My purpose has been to furnish an exposition of their systems which should be intelligible throughout, and also comprehensive enough to enable the student to form a fair estimate of their excel lences and defects, and even, if he wishes, to peruse with little difficulty the works themselves, either in the original or in an English translation. In particular, I have endeav ored to give a complete analysis and explanation of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason;'' for one who lias fairly mas tered this great work holds the key to all German meta physics.One who publishes a treatise upon Modern Philosophy, however, may reasonably aspire to be something more than a commentator. Aiming to be thorough and impartial in setting forth the opinions of others, I have also held it to bo a duty frankly to avow and earnestly to defend the whole doctrine which appeared to me to be just and true, whether it was also of good report or not. No one can be an earnest student of Philosophy without arriving at definite convic tions respecting the fundamental truths of Theology. In my own case, nearly forty years of diligent inquiry and re flection concerning these truths have served only to enlarge and confirm the convictions with which I began, and which are inculcated in this book. Earnestly desiring to avoidprejudice on either side, and to welcome evidence and argu ment from whatever source they might come, without pro fessional bias, and free from any external inducement to teach one set of opinions rather than another, I have faith fully studied most of what the philosophy of these modern times and the science of our own day assume to teach.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann. To get started finding Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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