The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical, Background of the World War (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Barton Perry, Ralph

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ISBN 10: 1330389042 ISBN 13: 9781330389041

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical, Background of the World War

It is my hope in these lectures to bring to light the deeper conflict Of ideas and ideals, of creeds and codes, Of philos ophies Of life, in Short that underlies the conflict of sub marines, airplanes and howitzers. This is a modern war in which the belligerents are nations largely governed by general ideas and ultimate values. It is these general ideas and ulti mate values that are at stake. The age after the war will be a new age; not SO much because the map Of Europe will be changed, but rather because the map Of the human mind will be changed. It is our present expectation and determina tion that certain ideas, like national aggrandizement, at present supported by most redoubtable champions, will find only a narrow and insecure lodgment in the human mind; and that other ideas such as international justice and domes tic self-government Shall be the big and triumphant ideas. But it will not be altogether a matter of the rise of some ideas and the fall Of others; to some extent there will be an exchange Of ideas. Ideas are catching; and you can catch ideas, like diseases, as well from your enemy as from your friend. If the idea be a good one you are not going to refuse it merely because, for example, it was made in Germany. N O one in our country is exhorting us to be wasteful, weak and dis organized, merely because the opposites of these qualities are German. I suspect we Shall even learn to think well Of efficiency again, though perhaps under another name.

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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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Excerpt from The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical, Background of the World War

The following lectures were delivered at the University of California while I had the honor and good fortune to be Lecturer on the Mills Foundation from January to May of the present year. I am publishing them in virtually the same form as that in which I delivered them, thus perpetuating my grateful sense of an interested and friendly audience. I claim neither originality nor profound scholarship; but have the hope that this assembling and formulation of ideas that are now in the air, may have some present value for those who are trying, as I am, to understand the deeper issues that underlie the war. I have thought that this book might also serve as a companion volume to my Present Philosophical Tendencies. There I have dealt mainly with the technicalities and fundamentals; here I have dealt with the moral, emotional, political and religious implications. In order that the two books may be used together, I have followed a similar order of topics: discussing first (Chapters III-XII), aspects of naturalism; second (Chapters XIII-XII), aspects of idealism; third (Chapters XX-XXIV), aspects of pragmatism; and fourth (Chapter XXV), the practical implications of realism. The remainder of the book consists of an attempt to relate these tendencies to the conflicting national ideals of the present war. I desire to express my thanks to Professor A. L. Locke of Howard University for his assistance in the reading of proof.

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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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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330389042
• ISBN 13: 9781330389041
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 568
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