ISBN: 9781458835338

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848. Excerpt: ... LECTURE II. ON INDIVIDUALISM. In our previous Lecture we made a classification of the chief philosophical tendencies of the present age. The principle on which we proceeded in this classification was somewhat of the following nature. First of all, let it be kept in mind that philosophy can be described as the science of the first principles or foundations of truth. Then the different tendencies in philosophy will evidently be designated by an enumeration of the various theories which men are proposing as to the ultimate test for the validity of their knowledge. A careful analysis, therefore, of the different philosophical methods now in vogue, gives us, as we showed, four generic principles, which have been assumed by different parties as the ultimate appeal for the certitude of what they esteem as truth. The first of these appeals we noticed was that which is made to the senses, as furnishing us with a body of plain, palpable, and positive facts; upon which (as it is supposed by many), and out of which, the whole superstructure of our knowledge must be erected. This principle, worked into a system, is positivism. The next appeal, to which we referred, was the appeal to the individual reason, as being the only interpreter and judge of the truth, which comes to us from any objective source, whatever it may be. A third party, exhibiting the delusions of private judgment, and hastily concluding from thence the entire fallibility of the individual reason in man, have gone to the opposite extreme, and imagined the elements of all truth, philosophical as well as theological, to be communicated by some kind of objective revelation, whether that revelation be primitive, originating at the creation of man, or whether it have renewed itself again and again during s... J. D. Morell, Books, Religion and Spirituality, On The Philosophical Tendencies Of The Age; Being Four Lectures Delivered At Edinburgh And Glasgow, In January 1848 Books>Religion and Spirituality This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: J. Johnstone in 1848 in 213 pages; Subjects: Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / History & Surveys / General; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern;<

ISBN: 1458835332

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ISBN: 1458835332

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