Fundamental Problems: The Method of Philosophy as a Systematic Arrangement of Knowledge - Softcover

Carus, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1417946172 ISBN 13: 9781417946174

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

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Synopsis

Carus, an independent philosopher who studied and published on Eastern and Western philosophy, was instrumental in raising Western awareness of Buddhism at the turn of the century. Carus writes in the Preface that: The view here presented, in spite of all our differences with Kant, may be considered as the natural outcome of Kant's philosophy. The view here presented unites, two qualities which may appear contradictory at first sight. It is radical, and at the same time conservative and, our fundamental conceptions of world and life, therefore, for practical purposes, for our individual welfare, for the destiny of our nation and for that of humanity, are of greatest importance. On the philosophy of our age depends, the health of our religious, our scientific, our industrial, our mercantile, our political and our social development.

From the Back Cover

Carus sought, as a philosopher, to reconcile the spiritual with scientific and to bring a certain rigor to thinking regarding philosophy itself: he saw it as "the science of sciences" and advocated a rational, not an emotional, approach.

Here, in this 1891 work, he endeavors to address some of the basic problems that have haunted philosophers since time immemorial from this new direction, exploring ideas about sensation and memory, causality, nature, the knowable and the unknowable, idealism and realism, and many others.

Collected from essays published in The Open Court, the magazine of philosophy and religion Carus edited for many years, this is vital reading for anyone eager to understand the state of modern philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1417946172
• ISBN 13: 9781417946174
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288