A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Modern PhilosophyCushman, Herbert Ernest
Philosophy
A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Modern Philosophy
Cushman, Herbert Ernest
Philosophy -- History
Wagner, Richard,
342.
Watson, John,
_Hedonistic Theories_, 47 n.
Weber, E. A.,
_History of Philosophy_, iv, 70 n., 73 n., 107 n., 332 n., 352 n.
Weimar,
233, 307.
Wernaer, R. M.,
_Romanticism and the Romantic School in Germany_, 300 n.
Will, the,
Kant’s theory of, 269–277;
the world as, and as idea, according to Schopenhauer, 345–347;
as irrational reality, according to Schopenhauer, 347, 348;
suicide and, according to Schopenhauer, 349;
the denial of, according to Schopenhauer, 349–351.
Windelband, Wilhelm,
_History of Philosophy_, iv, 8 n., 23 n., 30 n., 47 n., 70 n.,
119 n., 132 n., 183 n., 230 n., 236 n., 278 n., 282 n.;
on Kant’s synthetic judgments _a priori_, 251 n.
Wittenberg,
new religious centre in the Renaissance, 12.
_Wolfenbüttel Fragments_,
85.
Wolff, Christian,
221, 222, 228.
Wolffians, the,
142.
World,
of grace, 63, 64, 76, 83;
relation of God to, according to Descartes, 77;
in Spinoza’s philosophy, 97;
the, Leibnitz’s conception of, as the best possible, 130;
according to Goethe, 298;
in terms of consciousness, 321;
a world of contradictions, 321;
as will and as idea, according to Schopenhauer, 345–347;
as idea, the misery of, according to Schopenhauer, 348, 349.
_See_ Universe.
Footnotes.
1 – Read Eucken, _Problem of Human Life_, pp. 303–321;
Windelband, _History of Philosophy_, pp. 348–351;
Dewing, _Introduction to Modern Philosophy_, pp. 52–54.
2 – Read Eucken, _Problem of Human Life_, pp. 321–331;
Windelband, _Hist. of Phil._, pp. 352–354.
3 – Read Falckenberg, _Hist. of Modern Phil._, pp. 27–28;
Browning, _Paracelsus_; Goethe, _Faust_, lines 1–165.
4 – These two phrases will be found again in the philosophy
of Spinoza. Nature is conceived as having two aspects: one
is _natura naturans_, or God as the animating principle
of nature; the other is _natura naturata_, or the world as
materialized forms or effects.
5 – Read Windelband, _Hist. of Phil._, pp. 378–379.
6 – Induction and deduction are methods of reasoning.
Induction is the method of beginning with particular cases
and inferring from them a general conclusion. Deduction is
the opposite method of reasoning.
7 – Read Höffding, _Hist. of Phil._, vol. i, p. 175; Ball,
_Hist. of Math._, pp. 249 ff.; Falckenberg, _Hist. of
Mod. Phil._, pp. 59 ff.
8 – An example used by Galileo is the law of the velocity of
falling bodies in empty space.
9 – The name, “concomitant variations,” was later given by
John Stuart Mill.
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