Present Philosophical Tendencies a Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism, and Realism Together With a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James
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To avoid any misunderstanding as to the scope of the present book, let me say at the outset that with the exception of the A ppendix, it is a critique, rather than a history. I have attempted not merely to summarize, but to estimate, present philosophical tendencies; and my criticism is throughout based on the realistic philosophy which I set forth constructively only at the end. Since my method h...
MoreTo avoid any misunderstanding as to the scope of the present book, let me say at the outset that with the exception of the A ppendix, it is a critique, rather than a history. I have attempted not merely to summarize, but to estimate, present philosophical tendencies; and my criticism is throughout based on the realistic philosophy which I set forth constructively only at the end. Since my method has been critical rather than expository I shall doubtless be charged with having committed the error persanae with having attributed to certain writers views which they would not recognize as their own. Be this as it may, I have in any case formulated the views which I have criticised, so that ihe merits of the question may always be in the foregroimd of study. I have assumed it to be more important to discover whether certain current views were true or false than to discuss with painstaking nicety the question of their attribution. Furthermore, I realize that I have given to the several tendencies which I have discussed the relative emphasis which is characteristic of A nglo-A merican thought. This appears in the importance which I have attached to the blend of critical or Kantian, with metaphysical or Helian motives in idealism; in my identification of realism with the new or non-dualistic realism; and in the prominence which I have given both to realism and to pragmatism.
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