Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE VI. THE METHOD OF PHILOSOPHY. The next question we proceed to consider js, ? What is the true Method or Methods of Philosophy ? There is only one possible method in philosophy; and what have been called the different methods of different philosophers, vary from each other only as more or less perfect applications of this one Method to the objects of knowledge. All method1 is a rational progress, ? a progress towards an end; and the method of philosophy is the procedure Method a progrew conciucive to the end which philosophy pro- towards an end. poses. The ends, ? the final causes of philosophy, ? as we have seen, ? are two; ? first, the discovery of efficient causes; secondly, the generalization of our knowledge into unity; ? two ends, however, which fall together into one, inasmuch as the higher we proceed in the discovery of causes, we necessarily approximate more and more to unity. The detection of the one in the many might, therefore, be laid down as the end to which philosophy, though it can never reach Philosophy has but d continually to approximate. But, con- onc poraible method. . sidenng philosophy in relation to both these ends, I shall endeavor to show you that it has only one possible method. Considering philosophy, in the first place, in relation to its first end, ? the discovery of causes, ? we have seen This shown in reia- that Cau9es (taking that terra as synonvmous tion to the Bret end of .T7 J Philosophy or a' Wltnout which the effect would not be, ) are only the coefficients of the effect; an effect being nothing more than the sum or complement of all the partial causes, the concurrence of which constitute its existence. This being the case, ? and as it is only by experience that we discover 1 On the di
| ISBN-13 | 9780217860420 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217860427 |
| Weight | 2.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.58 In |
| List Price | $40.27 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 720 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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