Some Problems of Lotze's Theory of Knowledge (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Robins, Edwin Proctor

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ISBN 10: 1330421000 ISBN 13: 9781330421000

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Some Problems of Lotze's Theory of Knowledge

Otze's many-sidedness at once attracts the notice of the reader. He seems to represent in turn almost every system Of philosophy, and also to deny that a system Of knowl edge is possible. Many scholars know Lotze chiefly as a realist, and class his philosophy with the anti-idealism which is so com mon at the present time. From this point of view he is attacked by critics who regard him as the enemy of all true philosophy, and his realism as the antithesis of sound idealism.l On the other hand there are those who sympathize with Lotze, and agree that all knowledge is empirical but these critics are not satisfied because he does not renounce entirely the philosophical method.2 Others who identify his idealism with an abstract monism find in Lotze an explicit realism as the kernel of his system, and main tain that any attempt'to formtxlate his philosophy idealistically is wrong, and makes Lotze say just the Opposite of that which he intended to uphold. According to this interpretation, Lotze is not a monist (idealist), but a pluralist.3 A fourth class of thinkers find in Lotze the champion Of the heart against the head, and regard his philosophy as a resolute and by no means unsuccessful attempt' to show that truth is broader than intellect, and that human experience is as extensive as man's total being, and is not limited to the function of understanding or reason alone. Even Lotze's opponents recognize this concession to feeling and will as ele ments in the mind, but remark sarcastically that now theologians inay take new heart, for this theory trusts the heart against the head. 4 Again there are those who regard Lotze as an idealist - they claim that for him the world is a spiritual unity.

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Excerpt from Some Problems of Lotze's Theory of Knowledge

This monograph was written while the author was a graduate student at Cornell University, and was intended as a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Although the author had intended before publishing to add to the work an historical introduction dealing with the position of philosophy in Germany at the time when Lotze's views were forming, and had collected some material for this purpose, the study of Lots which he had undertaken was in all essentials complete at the time of his death. The first chapter had been rewritten and revised, and the remaining chapters, although lacking the author's final touch, would not probably have been changed greatly either in form or substance. In preparing the manuscript for the press, I have made no changes except in occasional passages where the addition or substitution of a word or phrase seemed necessary in order to render the meaning clearer. With regard to the general method and purpose of the study a word may be necessary. The author purposely refrained from criticism of particular passages or isolated statements in the system with which he was dealing. The aim of his study was sympathetically to interpret the spirit of Lotze's system as a whole-to do justice to the philosopher by taking him at his best rather than to exhibit the literal inconsistencies of his system.

Edward Proctor Robins was born at Central Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, July 2, 1872. After passing through the primary and grammar schools of his native place, he entered Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, at the age of sixteen. In the fall of 1891 he matriculated into Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S. Although his preparation would have enabled him to enter the second year in any Canadian college, he characteristically preferred to take the full four years' course.

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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
• ISBN 10: 1330421000
• ISBN 13: 9781330421000
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 122