Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 25 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 25 Segue nu rapide esame steriee dei principali periodi della filese fia moderna guardata da questi aspetti; nel quale l'autere mira sopra tutte a mostrare ceme in essa si contrappongano l'une all'altre due gruppi centrali di dottrine metafisiche; l'une fermate dalle seuele inglesi e francesi dei secoli XVII0 e XVIII l'altre, a cui appartengono 1e dottrine tedesche, dal Leibniz in pei e da1 Kant fine agli ultimi grandi rappresentanti della sua seuela. e'stata 1a Germania dice il Barzelletti ehe ha pretratte in piene secolo XIX0 fine a nei, e quande gia era trascorsa ormai pel reste d'eurepa, l'eta delle grandi costruzioni metafisiche. E tra le condizioni steriehe, 1e quali, in tempi anche nen lontani da nei, ne resero possibile eela il piene fiorire e 1a Vita di grandi seuele filosofiche di tipe affine alle antiche, een dizioni essenzialmente singolari e proprie alla coltura tedesca di quell'epeea, una delle prime fu la prefenda idealita religiosa, allera intatta, della nazione tedesca. Venute mene eggi queste condizioni steriehe e een esse l'ambiente favorevole alla Vita delle speculazioni sistematiche e delle seuele, la Germania, eh'era stata nell'eta moderna la terra classica del discepolato, nen ha piu seuele filosofiche, a eui si pessa een verita dare queste neme. L'autere si ferma a descrivere, dandone gl'indiei piu caratteristici, lo state, in eui e eggi la Filosofia in Germania; eve, fra le melte e varie direzioni e e e r r e n ti del pensiere filosofico, nen si pue dire vi sia un'uniea dottrina, ehe raccolga interne a se un numere notevole di veri seguaci e discepoli. Si accordano nel constatare queste fatte ehe, del reste, si verifica ovunque in Europa e fueri, tutti celere e sene melti ehe eggi in Ger mania hanno seritte delle condizioni del pensiere filosofico. 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."




Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 1915, Vol. 28 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 1915, Vol. 28 Auffassung dessen um, was sie getrieben hatten und trieben, so erhielten wir so vielgestaltige und so weit von einander abhegende Antworten, daß es völlig aussichtslos wäre, diese buntschillernde Mannig faltigkeit auf einen einfachen Ausdruck und die ganze Fülle dieser wechselnden Erscheinungen unter einen einheitlichen Begriff bringen zu wollen. Oft genug sei freilich der Versuch dazu gemacht worden. Absehend von den besonderen Inhaltsbestimmungen, mit denen jeder Philosoph die Quintessenz der von ihm gewonnenen Ansichten und Einsichten schon in die Aufstellung seiner Aufgabe hineinzulegen gewöhnt sei, habe man zu einer rein formalen Definition zu ge langen gedacht, die von dem Wechsel der zeitlichen und der nationalen Anschauungen ebenso wie von der Einseitigkeit persönlicher Uber zeugungen unabhängig und deshalb geeignet wäre, alles unter sich zu befassen, was je Philos0phie genannt worden sei. Aber möge man dabei die Philosophie als Lebensweisheit oder als Wissenschaft von den Prinzipien oder wie immer definieren, stets werde die Definition zu weit oder zueng erscheinen. Angesichts des Wechsels, den die Bedeutung des Wortes Philosophie im Laufe der Zeiten durchgemacht habe, sei es in alle Wege unmöglich durch historische Induktion einen allgemeinen Begriff der Philosophie zu finden, der alle Philosophie genannten geschichtlichen Erscheinungen umfaßte7). 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.




A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 3, The Fifth Century Enlightenment, Part 1, The Sophists


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The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, Gorgias and Hippias to the extraordinary intellectual and moral fermant in fifth-century Athens. They questioned the bases of morality, religion and organized society itself and the nature of knowledge and language; they initiated a whole series of important and continuing debates, and they provoked Socrates and Plato to a major restatement and defence of traditional values.




The Discovery of Things


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Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naïve, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and Plato's strange counterparts, the "Late-Learners" of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflects Aristotle's discovery that ordinary items are things (objects with properties). Put most starkly, Mann contends that there were no things before Aristotle. The author's argument consists of two main elements. First, a careful investigation of Plato which aims to make sense of the odd-sounding suggestion that things do not show up as things in his ontology. Secondly, an exposition of the theoretical apparatus Aristotle introduces in the Categories--an exposition which shows how Plato's and the Late-Learners' metaphysical pictures cannot help but seem inadequate in light of that apparatus. In doing so, Mann reveals that Aristotle's conception of things--now so engrained in Western thought as to seem a natural expression of common sense--was really a hard-won philosophical achievement. Clear, subtle, and rigorously argued, The Discovery of Things will reshape our understanding of some of Aristotle's--and Plato's--most basic ideas.




The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy


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This two-part volume collects the complete fragments and most important testimonies for the leading presocratic philosophers. The Greek and Latin texts are translated on facing pages and accompanied by a brief commentary for each philosopher.




Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 24 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 24 Verstandessubstanz enthalte114); daher ist das naturliche Verstehen allen Menschen gemeinsam5) und durch diese Fahigkeit gelangt der Mensch vermittels der Sinneswahrnehmung auf dem Wege der Erfahrung, indem er jedes Wesen seiner Natur nach zur Erkenntnis des Wesens eines Dinges. Diese Erkenntnis bringt der Mensch durch empirische Bezeichnungen ovocew) zum naturlichen Ausdruck. Dort aber, wo der Mensch nicht unmittelbar das Wesen eines Dinges zu erkennen vermag, weil einer solchen Erkenntnis durch die Sinne naturliche Schranken gesetzt sind7), verkundet die Gottheit dem Menschen das Wesen der Dinge durch naturliche Zeichens). 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."




Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 21 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 21 Hier konnen wir auch den widerstreit der transzendentalen Ideen im Problem der stetigen Teilung losen. Die Monaden ge horen einer ideellen, die Materie der materiellen Welt an. Der Unterschied zwischen beiden lasst sich am Beispiel der Zahl Ver anschaulichen. Die aktuellen Dinge setzen sich wie die Zahl aus Einheiten zusammen, die ideellen wie die Zahl aus Bruchteilen. 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."




Principles and Proofs


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By a thorough study of the Posterior Analytics and related Aristotelian texts, Richard McKirahan reconstructs Aristotle's theory of episteme--science. The Posterior Analytics contains the first extensive treatment of the nature and structure of science in the history of philosophy, and McKirahan's aim is to interpret it sympathetically, following the lead of the text, rather than imposing contemporary frameworks on it. In addition to treating the theory as a whole, the author uses textual and philological as well as philosophical material to interpret many important but difficult individual passages. A number of issues left obscure by the Aristotelian material are settled by reference to Euclid's geometrical practice in the Elements. To justify this use of Euclid, McKirahan makes a comparative analysis of fundamental features of Euclidian geometry with the corresponding elements of Aristotle's theory. Emerging from that discussion is a more precise and more complex picture of the relation between Aristotle's theory and Greek mathematics--a picture of mutual, rather than one-way, dependence. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.




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Vols. 1-23 (1888-1910) include "Jahresberichte über sämtliche Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte der Philosophie"; v. 24-41 include section "Die neuesten Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte der Philosophie" (varies slightly)




Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 19


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Excerpt from Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 19: In Gemeinschaft mit Wilhelm Dilthey, Benno Erdmann, Paul Natorp und Eduard Zeller; Neue Folge XII. Band Das Wesen der mechanischen Auffassung des Naturgeschehens sieht nun Lotze') in der Erkenntnis, daß zwei Prozesse, und a, faktisch durch einen inneren Zusammenhang, dessen Natur dahin gestellt bleiben kann, auf allgemeine Weise miteinander verbunden sind; daß überall, wo diese Folge nicht eintreten soll, wenn ihre Ursache da. Ist, es eine bestimmte Ursache der Verhinderung geben muß; daß mit der Änderung des Wertes von sich der Wert von a in irgend einer Form der Proportion, aber so ändert, daß zwischen ihren Differenzen 'von'a. Zu von a' zu a einerseits und den zugehörigen Differenzen zu a', von a' zu a andrer seits eine allgemeine fiir alle diese Paare gemeinsame Gleichung bestehe; daß endlich über die Resultate' welche das Zusammen tre'ffer'1 mehrerer Prozesse a, b, 0 haben soll, gleichfalls irgend ein allgemeines Gesetz, sei es einfach oder verwickelt, entscheide, 'nach welchem sich bestimmen läßt, 'zu welchem Gesamtergebnis sich die entsprechenden Einzelfolgen oz, B, 1 zusammensetzen müssen. 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.