Beschreibung
Half title + TP + [v]-xv = Contents + [1]-435, Octavo. First Edition. Abercrombie was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and first Physician to His Majesty of Scotland. According to McCosh, he was "the most eminent Scotch physician of his time, being distinguished for his great skill and judgment. He wrote a number of medical works, treating of the brain, spinal cord, and of disease." (McCosh, p. 406) This is his first and most popular work on metaphysics which passed through many editions. "[Abercrombie] proceeds throughout on the method of Reid, and his treatises summarize some of the best results of the philosophy of Scotland. They are also valuable for the admirably reported cases illustrative of the influence of mind on body and body on mind. Nor is it to be omitted that there runs through all his works a vein of evangelical piety, decisive and outspoken without being offensive." …In his "Intellectual Powers", he begins with stating what he regards as the object of science: it is to observe facts and trace their relations. He here treats of cause and effect, which he confounds with the uniformity of nature. He makes our belief in it an original instinct, but awkwardly brings observation and inference as involved in it. He distinguishes, in the manner of Reid and Stewart, between physical and efficient cause, regarding the former as the only object of philosophic inquiry. He opposes materialism, but not very effectively. He then treats of the faculties of the mind arranging them: sensation and perception, consciousness and reflection, memory, abstraction, imagination, reason or judgment. Under the last he treats of first truths. But by far the most interesting and useful parts of his works are those in which he treats of the practical application of metaphysical subjects, as, for instance, of the laws of investigation, of fallacies, attention." (McCosh, pp. 406/7) Original plain brown boards with the chipped and cracked original spine and label laid down. This lovingly restored binding is worn, but still preserves the "feel" of its original state. Overall, an extremely respectable copy of this work from the late Scottish Enlightenment period. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1403
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