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- Author: Henry Maudsley
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1428625941
- ISBN-13: 9781428625945
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. I.--THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY* It is not a little hard upon those who now devote themselves to the patient interrogation of Nature, by means of observation and experiment, that they should be counted, whether they will or not, ministers of the so-called Positive Philosophy, and disciples of him who is popularly considered the founder of that philosophy. No matter that positive investigation within the limits which Comte prescribes was pursued earnestly and systematically before his advent, and with an exactness of method of which he had no conception; that many of those distinguished since his time for their scientific researches and generalizations have been unacquainted with his writings; that others who have studied them withhold their adherence from his doctrines, or energetically disclaim them. These things are not considered; so soon as a scientific inquirer pushes his researches into the phenomena of life and mind, he is held to be a Comtist. Thus it happens that there is a growing tendency in the public mind to identify modern science with the Positive Philosophy. Considering how much mischief has often been done by iden * Journal of Mental Science, No. 70. The Limits of Philosophical Inquiry. Address delivered to the Members of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institn tlon, November 6,1868. By William, Lord-Archbishop of York. (Bdmonston and Douglas.) THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIKY. 99 tifying the character of an epoch of thought with the doctrines of some eminent man who has lived and labored and taken the lead in it, and thus making his defects and errors, hardened into formulas, chains to fetter the free course of thought, it is no wonder that scientific men should be anxious to disclaim Comte as...
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- Author: Henry Maudsley
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1428625941
- ISBN-13: 9781428625945
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. I.--THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY* It is not a little hard upon those who now devote themselves to the patient interrogation of Nature, by means of observation and experiment, that they should be counted, whether they will or not, ministers of the so-called Positive Philosophy, and disciples of him who is popularly considered the founder of that philosophy. No matter that positive investigation within the limits which Comte prescribes was pursued earnestly and systematically before his advent, and with an exactness of method of which he had no conception; that many of those distinguished since his time for their scientific researches and generalizations have been unacquainted with his writings; that others who have studied them withhold their adherence from his doctrines, or energetically disclaim them. These things are not considered; so soon as a scientific inquirer pushes his researches into the phenomena of life and mind, he is held to be a Comtist. Thus it happens that there is a growing tendency in the public mind to identify modern science with the Positive Philosophy. Considering how much mischief has often been done by iden * Journal of Mental Science, No. 70. The Limits of Philosophical Inquiry. Address delivered to the Members of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institn tlon, November 6,1868. By William, Lord-Archbishop of York. (Bdmonston and Douglas.) THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIKY. 99 tifying the character of an epoch of thought with the doctrines of some eminent man who has lived and labored and taken the lead in it, and thus making his defects and errors, hardened into formulas, chains to fetter the free course of thought, it is no wonder that scientific men should be anxious to disclaim Comte as...
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