Naturalism and agnosticism - PDF by James Ward

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Naturalism and agnosticism - PDF by James Ward

Naturalism and agnosticism These lectures do not form a systematic treatise. They only attempt to discuss in a popular way certain assumptions of 'modern science' which have led to a widespread, but more or less tacit, rejection of idealistic views of the world. These assumptions are, of course, no part of the general body of the natural sciences, but rather prepossessions that, after gradually taking shape in the minds of many absorbed in scientific studies, have entered into the current thought of our time. Though, as I believe, these prepossessions will prove to be ill-grounded and mistaken, yet they are nevertheless the almost inevitable outcome of the standpoint and the premises from which the natural sciences start. If with the history of science and the results of science before us we pass straight on to the construction of philosophy, idealism has no chance. But, in truth, 'modern science' hardly needs to construct its philosophy; for, without any conscious lab…

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