Course of the History of Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This second series of Lectures contains a full exposition of Cousin's system. It is, in fact, his great philosophical work, and has received his last revision and correction. Whoever, either for the purpose of propagating it or resisting its influence, wishes to make himself acquainted with Eclecticism, which is fast becoming the dominant philosophy of the nineteenth century, will do well to study this production of its founder and ablest teacher. The first volume contains a luminous summary of Cousin's views n regard to humanity and history. The course which comprises the two last volumes of this series, will, to use the language of Mr. Morell,* in all probability, be ever the most popular of his writings. The connected account which it gives of the history of philosophy from the earliest times; the distinct classification it makes of systems; the brief, yet intelligible, glimpses it affords into the interior of almost every school, whether ancient or modem, together with the detailed analysis of Locke, in which is said almost all that ever need be said about the Essay on the Human Understanding in a word, the singular union of the more sober criticism of the psychological school, with occasional flights into the higher regions of metaphysical analysis, all concur to secure for the course of 1829 an interest and a value pecu liarly its own. In order to understand the system of the greatest Philosopher of France, it is, at least, necessary to study the whole of these three volumes.

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