A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College, on the Present Situation in Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

James, William

 
9781440050619: A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College, on the Present Situation in Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

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The torch of learning passes from land to land as the spirit bloweth the flame. The deep ening of philosophic consciousness came to us english folk from Germany, as it will probably pass back ere long. Ferrier, J H. Stirling, and, most of all, T. H. Green are to be thanked. If asked to tell in broad strokes what the main doctrinal change has been, I should call it a change from the crudity of the older eng lish thinking, its ultra-simplicity of mind, both when it was religious and when it was anti religious, toward a rationalism derived in the first instance from Germany, but relieved from german technicality and shrillness, and content to suggest, and to remain vague, and to be, in the english fashion, devout.

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Excerpt from A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College, on the Present Situation in Philosophy

The torch of learning passes from land to land as the spirit bloweth the flame. The deep ening of philosophic consciousness came to us english folk from Germany, as it will probably pass back ere long. Ferrier, J H. Stirling, and, most of all, T. H. Green are to be thanked. If asked to tell in broad strokes what the main doctrinal change has been, I should call it a change from the crudity of the older eng lish thinking, its ultra-simplicity of mind, both when it was religious and when it was anti religious, toward a rationalism derived in the first instance from Germany, but relieved from german technicality and shrillness, and content to suggest, and to remain vague, and to be, in the english fashion, devout.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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As these lectures are meant to be public, and so few, I have assumed all very special problems to be excluded, and some topic of general interest required. Fortunately, our age seems to be growing philosophical again - still in the ashes live the wonted fires. Oxford, long the seed-bed, for the english world, of the idealism inspired by Kant and Hegel, has recently become the nursery of a very different way of thinking. Even non-philosophers have begun to take an interest in a controversy over what is known as pluralism or humanism. It looks a little as if the ancient english empiricism, so long put out of fashion here by nobler sounding germanic formulas, might be re-pluming itself and getting ready for a stronger flight than ever. It looks as if foundations were being sounded and examined afresh.
Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet

Table of Contents

The Types of Philosophic Thinking 1; Our age is growing philosophical again, 3 Change of tone since 1860, 4 Empiricism and Rationalism defined, 7 The process of Philosophizing: Philosophers choose some part of the world to interpret the whole by, 8 They seek to make it seem less strange, 11 Their temperamental differences, 12 Their systems must be reasoned out, 18 Their tendency to over-technicality, 15 Excess of this in Germany, 17 The type of vision is the important thing in a philosopher, 20 Primitive thought, 21 Spiritualism and Materialism : Spiritualism shows two types, 23 Theism and Pantheism, 24 Theism makes a duality of Man and God, and leaves Man an outsider, 25 Pantheism identifies Man with God, 29 The contemporary tendency is towards Pantheism, 30 Legitimacy of our demand to be essential in the Universe, 33 Pluralism versus Monism: The 'each-form' and the 'all-form' of representing the world

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