Category: Philosophy & Ethics
During the past twenty years a revolution has been working in physical science. Within the last ten it has come to the surface, and is now rapidly spreading into all departments of mental activity.
Philosophers usually begin to construct their systems in full view of their final principle. It would be absurd for one to commence a demonstration if he had no clear idea of wh...
13. CHAPTER VI.The comprehension of mediation lies at the basis of the distinction of sensuous knowing from the _understanding_. The transition from _intuition_ to _abstract thinking_ is made...
5. CHAPTER I.The object of this series is to furnish, in as popular a form as possible, a course of discipline for those who are beginning the study of philosophy. Strictly _popular_, in the...
6. Part II.The first part of Hegel’s Æsthetics contains the questions relating to the nature of art in general. The second unfolds its principal forms in the different historic epochs. It...
4. PART I.In an extended introduction, Hegel lays the foundations of the science of the Beautiful: he defines its object, demonstrates its legitimacy, and indicates its method; he then un...
3. CHAPTER III.As might be expected from Spencer’s treatment of the _unknowable_, the _knowable_ will prove a confused affair; especially since to the above-mentioned “inscrutability” of the a...
10. Part III.Before proceeding to the division of the arts, he glances at the different _styles_ which distinguish the different epochs of their development. He reduces them to three styles:...
15. CHAPTER VIII.The immediate object before the senses undergoes change; the real becomes potential, and that which was potential becomes real. Without the potentiality we could have had no cha...
2. CHAPTER II.The _British Quarterly_ speaking of Spencer, says: “These ‘First Principles’ are merely the foundation of a system of Philosophy, bolder, more elaborate and comprehensive, perha...
1. CHAPTER I.During the past twenty years a revolution has been working in physical science. Within the last ten it has come to the surface, and is now rapidly spreading into all departments...
8. CHAPTER III.In the first chapter we attained—or at least made the attempt to attain—some insight into the relation which Mind bears to Time and Space. It appeared that Mind is a _Transcende...
14. CHAPTER VII.Everything, to be known, must be thought as belonging to a system. This result was the conclusion of Chapter VI. To illustrate: acid is that which hungers for a base; its sharp...
7. CHAPTER II.We hope to see those necessities of thought which underlie all Philosophical systems. We set out to account for all the diversities of opinion, and to see identity in the world...
11. CHAPTER V._Remark._—This is the most exhaustive statement of the position of the “understanding.” Nothing seems more clear than this to the thinker who has advanced beyond the sensuous gr...
12. Chapter IV., III., 3.)Thus the doctrine of necessity presupposes self-determination or Freedom as the form of the Total, and necessity is only one side—the realized or _determined_ side—of the proces...