Lanterna Rally

Author: John Watson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-05

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781330033777

Excerpt from Philosophical Essays Presented to John Watson The philosophy of Edward Caird was an offshoot from the great systems of thought developed by Kant and Hegel, but as taught by himself and a group of eminent academic teachers who had been his scholars, it had its own formulas, its own characteristic applications and phrases, and of course its own way of encountering the new problems which are always coming up in philosophy. It had even, at least in the case of Caird and Watson, a well-defined public, whose needs and receptivities counted for something in the form which their teaching took. It had a true organic relation to its environment in this respect. A certain sobriety of speculation was impressed upon it by the need of adjusting its highest thought to a watchful and inquiring public which was not confined to academic circles. Even its language, apart from the necessities of technical exposition, tended towards the plainer usage, as something that was meant to reach a wider public. Caird and Watson were great Kantian scholars and profoundly influenced by the ideas of Hegel, but their thinking was moulded in a form which had little of the severely scholastic character of German metaphysic. They accustomed themselves to use a language which was as readable as that of Locke or Hume, only that it carried more of the natural refinement and complexity of modern thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.