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Contemporary American Philosophy
Personal Statements Volume I
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First published in 2002. This is Volume I of twenty-two in a series of 20th Century Philosophy focuses on American Philosophy. This is volume I of the two, written in 1930 is a collection of essays dedicated to George Herbert Palmer and his expansion of thought which has gone on from the restricted outlook of Hopkins, Porter, Bowen, and McCosh to the wide horizons of Dewey, Montague, Hocking, and Whitehead.
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INDEX
ABSOLUTE—
philosophical absolutism, 86, 212, 270
nature of the absolute, 212
justification of, 286
ACTIVITY—
systems of, 157
attributes of activity systems, 158
interrelations of activity systems, 158
organizations of, 161
nature of thought, 271
ÆSTHETICS—
rooted in sense perceptions, 94, 96
nature of, 244
nature of Art, 325
ALEXANDER, H. B.—
his definition of philosophy, 98
formative influences and early thought, 100, 101, 103
influenced by Greek philosophy, 104
faith of, 108, 109
APPEARANCES—
reality of all, 160
appearance and existence, 286
ARMSTRONG, A. C.—
history of philosophy, 116
contributions to philosophical progress, 117
Reid and Scottish intuitionalism, 118
inadequacy of direct realism, 119
exposition of critical realism, 120
relation to pragmatism, 121
rationalism and empiricism, 122
Hegelian system and science, 122
natural law and its assumptions, 123
trend of psychological thought, 124
positive doctrine of mind, 124
dualistic interpretations, 125
significance of empirical idealism, 126
weakness of Berkeley's doctrine, 126
services of idealism, 127
difficulties of idealism, 128
influence of Hegel on historical study, 128
idealism and individualism, 128
Spencer's doctrinal feats, 129
benefits of individualism, 129
individualism and social organization, 130
principle of faith, 132
BEAUTY—
meaning of, 45
BELIEF—
The Will to Believe, 322
BERGSON, H.—
positive doctrine of, 125
influence on H. C. Brown, 182
criticism of his views, 261
BERKELEY—
doctrine of idealism, 127, 147, 205
modern criticisms of, 206
BIBLE, THE—
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Editors' Preface
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Naturalism or Idealism
- The Great Art which is Philosophy
- Philosophy and Its History
- Nature and Reason
- A Philosophic Mind in the Making
- The Philosophic “Credo” of an Absolutistic Personalist
- The Faith of a Logician
- A Search for System
- The Philosophy of a Meliorist
- Philosophical Liberalism
- “In Vestigiis Veritatis”
- The Impersonal Point of View and the Personal
- Some Second Principles
- The Way of Opinion
- My Development and Present Creed
- Index