Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

The present study had its origins long ago in a doctorate thesis presented at the University of Cambridge.

ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT In Spring of 1968 a research project concerning the scholastic philosophy in the Iberian Colonies of America was submitted to the Institute of Latin American Studies in the University of Texas by Dr.

When I first became acquainted with the thought of the American philoso- pher Josiah Royce, two factors particularly intrigued me.

This book has two purposes.

Throughout the long centuries of western metaphysics the problem of the infinite has kept surfacing in different but important ways.

The book is the result of my preoccupation with the phe- nomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl during my years of post-doctoral studies (approximately since 1960).

Die folgenden Analysen stellen einen Versuch dar, von der Philosophie her Kunst zu verstehen d.

The general aim of this book is to present a study of a dramatic genre which was a significant facet of French drama in the period from 1784 to 1834 and has never before been singled out or analyzed.

In recommending a book like this, one is tempted to fall back on cliches such as 'brilliant insights', 'original perspectives', etc.

Martin Heidegger's fame and influence are based, for the most part, on his first work, Being and Time.

In the last hundred years, the philosophy of natural law has suffered a fate that could hardly have been envisaged by the seventeenth and eighteenth century exponents of its universality and eternity: it has become old-fashioned.

The philosophy of art, aesthetics, is here understood to be something distinct from both art appreciation and art criticism.

QU ALITIES, QUERIES, AND REPUTE Holland has bred its share of remarkable men and Gerard van Swieten was one of them.

Humanism has constantly proclaimed the belief that the only way to improve man's life on earth is to make man himself wiser and better.

This book is the study of a man who caught my interest both because of his own character and of the variety of his activities.

The departmentalism of American universities has doubtless much to recommend it.

The revival of ancient Greek scepticism in the 16th and 17th centuries was of the greatest importance in changing the intellectual climate in which modern science developed, and in developing the attitude that we now call "e;The scientific outlook"e;.

Now how would things be intelligible if they did not proceed from an intelligence?

The present work is substantially a dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Toronto.

In this study I will present the intellectual development of Schelling, Holderlin and Hegel during their formative years.

Early in the first volume of his Ideen zu einer reinen Phiinomeno- logie und phiinomenologischen Philosophie, Edmund Husserl stated concisely the significance and scope of the problem with which this present study is concerned.

It is not always easy to maintain a proper balance between the delineation of cultural development within a given literary field and the claims of practical criticism.

At a time when the traditional principles of many fields have lost their power and validity, the task of philosophy may well be to look back at these traditional principles and at their inherent determinations and basic problems, while heeding every indi- cation of a transition to something new, in order to be critically open for all attempts at "e;another beginning.

This book is a revised version, with some omissions, of a Cambridge doctoral dissertation submitted in 1963: I fear that it still bears marks of its origins.

Some preliminary observations must be made concerning the nature and purpose of this study.

Dialogue and communication have today become central concepts in con- temporary man's effort to analyze and comprehend the major roots of con- flict that threaten our twentieth-century world.

The function of philosophy may be circumscribed as consisting in ma- king a keen analysis of the peculiar nature of the crisis-situation, as it has existed among men throughout the centuries of human history, and as it manifested itself in definite ways at the various stages of this his- tory.