The Sociology of Philosophies

tianity. The last, which Hegel speaks about in an oblique and guarded way as the “Unhappy Consciousness,” is critiqued in what a ...

the dynamism not only of human beings but of the universe as well. Every object in the world is negative, in a state of privatio ...

never gave up his claim that philosophy covers the qualitative fields of Natur- philosophie, this was never a prime interest, fo ...

Political Crisis as the Outer Layer of Causality From the stance of the traditional sociology of knowledge, it is tempting to at ...

much ideological as structural. It coincided with quite different intellectual activity in various nations because the material ...

the intellectual movement. History is an endless round of battles going no- where; the Kantian sphere of ideas is a higher groun ...

since decayed; training in law had been monopolized for centuries by the Inns of Court in London, in medicine by independent med ...

fellowships to competitive examination, and were themselves notable scholars. Newman was a religiously conservative innovator in ...

student numbers fell, and professors’ pay plummeted (Green, 1969: 108–109). Even in the 1860s, the main base of the secular thin ...

the opposite fringe from Newman and the Oxford High Church movement; together their mobilization had broken up Anglican dominati ...

Logic (1883) criticized John Stuart Mill’s inductivism for glossing over the universals hidden in its “resemblances” among sensa ...

pered by finding sources of internal disputes for generating new variants, together with fresh amalgams of ingredients from othe ...

reminds us of the tools which G. E. Moore had used in his anti-Utilitarian Principia Ethica (1903), and of Russell’s innovations ...

calculus and mathematical set theory. Whitehead had come from collaborating with Russell on the monumental Principia Mathematica ...

purveying cultural currency in various forms: the Chatauquas and popular lectures for non-academic audiences without examination ...

FIGURE 12.2. NETWORK OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS, 1800–1935: GERMAN IMPORTS, IDEALISTS, PRAGMATISTS Intellectuals Take Control: The ...

an apprehension of it in some measure. If one doubts one’s power to transcend the moment, one has already transcended the moment ...

pragmatism but also limiting it so as not to jeopardize the objective truth guaranteed by the Absolute. On his side, James found ...

level of international leadership. Their work generally lost out in priority to De Morgan, Cantor, Dedekind and others. Charles’ ...

method of quaternions to inventing multiple algebras and investigating their properties. Modern higher mathematics was just beco ...