The Approach to Philosophy

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C. Scribner's Sons, 1905 - 448 páginas
 

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Religion as Belief in a Disposition or Attitude
62
Religion as Belief in the Disposition of the Re sidual Environment or Universe
65
Examples of Religious Belief
66
Typical Religious Phenomena Conversion
69
Piety
72
Religious Instruments Symbolism and Modes of Conveyance
74
Historical Types of Religion Primitive Re ligions
77
Buddhism
78
Critical Religion
80
THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF RELIGION
82
Religion Means to be Practically True God is a Disposition from which Consequences May Rationally be Expected ទី នុ ន គ
85
Historical Examples of Religious Truth and Error The Religion of Baal
88
Greek Religion
89
Judaism and Christianity
95
The Cognitive Factor in Religion
96
ligions
108
NATURAL SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
114
The Spheres of Philosophy and Science
117
The Procedure of a Philosophy of Science
120
The Origin of the Scientific Interest
123
Skill as Social
126
Science for Accommodation and Construction
127
The Place of Imagination in Religion 36 The Special Functions of the Religious Imagi nation
128
Space Time and Prediction
130
The Quantitative Method
133
The General Development of Science
134
The Determination of the Limits of Natural Science
135
Natural Science is Abstract
136
The Meaning of Abstractness in Truth
139
But Scientific Truth is Valid for Reality
142
Relative Practical Value of Science and Phi losophy
143
PART II
147
METAPHYSICS AND EPISTOMOLOGY
149
The Dependence of the Order of Philosophical Problems upon the Initial Interest
152
Metaphysics Seeks a Most Fundamental Con
157
The New Meaning of Monism and Pluralism
163
The Relation of Knowledge to its Object
172
THE NORMATIVE SCIENCES AND
180
Present Tendencies Theory of the Judgment
187
Priority of Concepts
188
Esthetics Deals with the Most General Con ditions of Beauty Subjectivistic and For malistic Tendencies
189
Ethics Deals with the Most General Conditions of Moral Goodness
191
Rationalism
193
Eudæmonism and Pietism Rigorism and Intuitionism
195
Duty and Freedom Ethics and Metaphysics
196
The Virtues Customs and Institutions
198
The Problems of Religion The Special In terests of Faith
199
Theology Deals with the Nature and Proof of God
200
Immortality Survival and Eternalism
212
The Natural Science of Psychology Its Prob lems and Method
213
Psychology and Philosophy
216
Transition from Classification by Problems to Classification by Doctrines Naturalism Subjectivism Absolute Idealism Absolute Realism
217
PART III
221
NATURALISM
223
Corporeal Being
224
Corporeal Processes Hylozoism and Mech anism
225
Materialism and Physical Science
228
Motion and its Cause Development and Ex tension of the Conception of Force
231
The Development and Extension of the Con ception of Energy
236
The Claims of Naturalism
239
The Task of Naturalism
241
The Origin of the Cosmos
242
Life Natural Selection
244
Mechanical Physiology
246
Mind The Reduction to Sensation
247
Automatism
248
Radical Materialism Mind as an Epiphe nomenon
250
Knowledge Positivism and Agnosticism
252
Experimentalism
256
Naturalistic Epistemology not Systematic
257
General Ethical Standpoint
258
Cynicism and Cyrenaicism
259
Development of Utilitarianism Evolution ary Conception of Social Relations
260
Naturalistic Ethics not Systematic
263
SUBJECTIVISM
267
The General Tendency of Subjectivism
297
ABSOLUTE REALISM
306
tion to Platonism
332
The Relation of Thought and its Object
340
The Religion of Fulfilment and the Religion
346
The Greek Philosophers and the Problem
352
The PostKantian Metaphysics is a Generali
358
Résumé Failure of Absolute Idealism
365
Emphasis on Selfconsciousness in Early
372
The PostKantians Transform Kants Mind
380
The Conception of Selfconsciousness Central
386
The Religion of Exuberant Spirituality
393
Metaphysics The Antagonistic Doctrines
399
The NeoKantians
404
Realistic Tendency in Absolute Idealism
411
Error and Evil cannot be Reduced to
417
The Justification of Faith
423
BIBLIOGRAPHY
431
The Relation between Imagination and Truth in Religion
432
INDEX
441
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Página 88 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Página 176 - The table I write on I say exists, that is I see and feel it, and if I were out of my study I should say it existed, meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.
Página 40 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Página 50 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man...
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Página 104 - O God, Thou art my' God; early will I seek Thee: My soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee In a dry and thirsty land, where no water is ; To see Thy power and Thy glory, So as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary.
Página 392 - It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that beside his privacy of power as an individual man there is a great public power, on which he can draw by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him...
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Página 24 - No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Página 88 - And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us.

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