Lectures on the History of Philosophy. The Lectures of 1825-26 Volume III: Medieval and Modern Philosophy

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

ISBN 10: 0520068122 / ISBN 13: 9780520068124

Published by University of California Press 1990-06-06, US, 1990

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316 pages. Faint foxing to top edge and light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461503.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures on the History of Philosophy. The Lectures of 1825-26 Volume III: Medieval and Modern Philosophy
• Publisher: University of California Press 1990-06-06, US
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520068122
• ISBN 13: 9780520068124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...though a man of distinction, he can still only be esteemed a commentator on Aristotle. For Aristotle is so rich a treasure-house of philosophic conceptions, that much material is found in him which is ready for further working upon, which may be put forward more abstractly, and in which individual propositions may be brought into prominence. However Aristotle's manner of procedure, which is to take an empirical starting point of ratiocination Raisonnement, and to comprehend this in the focus of the speculative Notion, is characteristic of his mind, without being one which, on its own account, can be freely elevated into a method and a principle. Thus of Theophrastus as of many others (Dicaearchus of Messina, for instance), amongst whom Strato of Lampsacus, the successor of Theophrastus, is best known, there is not much to tell. As regards Dicaearchus, Cicero says (Tusc. Qusest. I. 31, 10) that he controverted the immortality of the soul, for he asserted that " the soul is no more than an empty name, and the whole of the capacities and powers with which we act and feel are equally extended over all living bodies, and inseparable from the body; for it is nothing but the body so constituted as to live and feel through a certain symmetry and proportion in its body." Cicero gives in an historical manner a result as he made it comprehensible to himself, without any speculative conception. Stobaeus (Eclog. phys. p. 796), on the other hand, quotes from Dicaearchus that he held the soul to be " a harmony of the four elements." We have only a little general information to give of Strato, that he acquired great fame as a physicist, and that his conception of nature went upon mechanical lines, and yet not on those of Leucippus and Democritus, and la...

Review

"The translation is very faithful to the lecture tone of the German original, making it an eminently readable text that provides an excellent historically mediated introduction into Hegel's own contributions to modern philosophy."--"Choice