A first course in philosophy (1913)
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| A first course in philosophy |
This book, the outgrowth of more than twenty years of teaching, aims especially to meet the wants of students who are young in the study of philosophy. It is my hope also, that this book will be of service to other students who, work ing in other fields, desire to know something about the problems of the world and our human life with which philosophers are occupied.
I have endeavoured to set forth the main doctrine of philosophy in terms sufficiently simple, and in an exposition sufficiently ample to enable the student to comprehend the meaning of these doctrines and to appreciate their significance.
I have aimed to encourage the student to philosophize for himself, rather than merely to appropriate the product of other men s thinking. With this purpose in view, I have let the representatives of various philosophical theories advocate and defend their respective doctrines; and for the most part, have refrained from closing the debate.
My acquaintance with philosophy has taught me that its questions are still open and that it is the mark of the truly philosophic mind to hold whatever convictions to which it has attained, as tentative and liable to revision in the light of fuller evidence. J. E. R.
Table of Contents
Philosophy (1913) — John Edward Russell
Chapter I. Introduction
1. The Meaning of Philosophy – p.1
2. Philosophy and Science – p.1
3. Philosophy and Religion – p.5
4. The Reasons for Philosophy – p.6
PART I — The Problem of Reality
Chapter II. The Meaning of Being Real – p.11
Chapter III. The Nature of the Real – p.19
- I. Dualism – p.19
- II. Materialism – p.26
- III. Idealism – p.39
- IV. Critical or Agnostic Monism – p.60
Chapter IV. The Problem of the One and the Many – p.63
- I. Monism – p.64
- II. Pluralism – p.74
- III. Monistic Pluralism (Pluralistic Monism) – p.85
Chapter V. The Soul and Its Connection with the Body – p.92
Chapter VI. Cosmology – p.103
- I. The Conceptions of Space and Time – p.103
- II. Uniformity of Nature and Causation – p.117
- III. Mechanical and Teleological Conceptions of the World – p.129
- IV. Objections to Teleology – p.140
PART II — Epistemology
Chapter VII. The Doctrine of Knowledge – p.149
- The Meaning of Knowledge – p.149
- I. Rationalism – p.157
- II. Kant’s Theory of Knowledge – p.164
- III. The Empirical Theory of Knowledge – p.175
Chapter VIII. The Epistemology of Royce and the Pragmatic Theory of Knowledge – p.191
- The Pragmatic Meaning of Truth – p.202
- The Pragmatic Meaning of Reality (the Object in Knowledge) – p.205
- Objections to the Pragmatic Theory of Knowledge – p.207
PART III — The Problem of Conduct
Chapter IX. The Philosophy of Conduct – p.223
- I. The Problem of Morality – p.225
- II. The Problem of Religion – p.262
Bibliography – p.297
Index – p.[end]
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