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Williams and Norgate, London and Edinburgh.1884. Hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP as "With the Author's Comlp'ts". Book is tight, square, but does have occasional pencil underlining and marginal notes from a 1931 owner; note on the front pastedown from same person about Hegel and metaphysics. Book Condition: Good -; bumped head, tail, and tips; light wear to same locations; curled tips; self-made pasted label on spine; soiling to textblock top and boards; small bump/tear to front board at fore edge. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with blind stamped decorative edges on front and rear boards. Internal hinges are sound and not split or cracked.182 pp + 8 pp catalog 8vo. The author was a Scottish educator who also wrote extensively on philosophy in the late 1800s. The book seems to abandon his title of dualism and is in fact and analysis of perception, independently undertaken, but with full knowledge of, and reference to, the Kantian investigation. Besides rejecting the subjectivity of the Critick of Pure Reason, the author differs from Kant in maintaining that a real content of knowledge is given to us not only through sense but also by reason as functionally present in perception. Reason furnishes "pure percepts" (dialectic percepts) which are "not merely regulative, but constitutive of the external". A clean presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 009493
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta; A Return to ...
Publisher: Williams and Norgate, London and Edinburgh
Publication Date: 1884
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
