Scottish Philosophy Research Articles

Lxxiv: Hume and the Theory of Tragedy

Behind nearly all English literary criticism, particularly that relating to the Neo-classic drama, lies the Poetics of Aristotle. Some writers have been greatly affected by this epochal work; others have come under its sphere of influence to a lesser degree. However, there are few authors of importance upon whom the Poetics has failed to make some profound and enduring impression. Despite the fact that its influence permeates all English literature, excessive emphasis is laid sometimes upon the effect of Aristotle's teachings, to the detriment of such prominent critics as Horace, Vida, Trissino, Giraldi, Boileau, and Fontenelle. This applies especially to commentators on Hume. Indeed, the Scottish philosopher, historian, and critic subscribed to the majority of Aristotle's tenets, but the doctrines of Tully, Horace, Boileau, and Corneille made an equally impressive and indelible imprint upon his mind.

Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense.

Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense.

Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense. G. A. Johnston

<i>Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense</i>. G. A. Johnston

Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense.

Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense.

(1) Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2) Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense

(1) OF the twelve papers and symposia collected in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the last session, four are direct criticisms of positions taken up by Mr. Bertrand Russell. In the inaugural address on “ Science and Philosophy,” Dr. Bosanquet criticises the view, maintained in Mr. Russell's recent Lowell Lectures, that philosophy, as the science which aims at stating all that can be known A priori about all possible worlds, should be ethically neutral, and that it is just because philosophy in the past has been biased by the desire for agreeable conclusions that philosophy has not made the same progress as the physical sciences. Dr. Bosanquet holds that this view implies an antecedent limitation of philosophy, and involves “the confusion that because the interest of philosophy is purely theoretical, therefore its subject-matter is itself theory and its objects. (1) Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. New series, vol. xv., containing the papers read before the Society during the Thirty-sixth Session, 1914â“1915. Pp. 441. (London: Williams, and Norgate, 1915.) Price 10s. 6d. net. (2) Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense. Edited by G. A. Johnston. Pp. vii + 267. (Chicago and London: The Open Court Co., 1915.) Price 3s. 6d. net.

Book Review: Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense

Book Review: Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense

Scottish Philosophy in Its National Development. Henry Laurie

<i>Scottish Philosophy in Its National Development</i>. Henry Laurie

Book Review:Scottish Philosophy in Its National Development. Henry Laurie

Book Review:Scottish Philosophy in Its National Development. Henry Laurie

Review of Scottish Philosophy in its National Development.

Review of Scottish Philosophy in its National Development.

Scottish Philosophy in its National Development.

Scottish Philosophy in its National Development.

James Frederick Ferrier.

James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864) received his philosophical education first in his native Edinburgh then at Magdalen College, Oxford and finally at Heidelberg where he went in 1834 to study German thought at first hand. On returning to Scotland, he contributed a series of articles to Blackwoods Magazine in 1838 and 1839. Entitled An Introduction to the Philosophy of Consciousness, the articles defend an idealist metaphysics sharply at odds with the realism of the common sense school. This idealism was developed and defended in his books, Institutes of Metaphysic (1854) and Philosophy, the Old and New (1856). From 1845 until his death he was Professor of moral philosophy and political economy at the University of St.Andrews. E.S. Haldane's biography, (which contains a new introduction by John Haldane), a contribution to the Famous Scots series, conducts the reader through Ferrier's eventful life, devotes one chapter to his philosophy and paints a picture of Scottish intellectual life circa 1850. Ferrier is portrayed as an important transitional figure between two different schools or traditions of Scottish philosophy.

VIII.—NEW BOOKS

Journal Article VIII.—NEW BOOKS Get access Scottish Philosophy: A Comparison of the Scottish and German Answers to Hume. By ANDREW SETH, Professor of Logic and Philosophy in the University College of South Wales and Monniouthshire. Edinburgh and London : Blackwood & Sons, 1885. Pp. 218. Mind, Volume os-XI, Issue 41, 1 January 1886, Pages 120-b–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/os-XI.41.120-b Published: 01 January 1886

VII.—CRITICAL NOTICES

VII.—CRITICAL NOTICES Get access Scottish Philosophy: A Comparison of the Scottish and German Answers to Hume. By ANDREW SETH, Professor of Logic in the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. (“Balfour Philosophical Lectures,” University of Edinburgh.) Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1885. Pp. xii., 218. EDITOR EDITOR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume os-XI, Issue 42, 1 April 1886, Pages 267–272, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/os-XI.42.267 Published: 01 April 1886

1. On the First Properties of Matter—Inertia, Gravitation, Elasticity—referred to a common Law

The author commences by a vindication of the Scottish philosophy, that he may legitimately build upon substance as a reality as well as phenomenon. He then shows that just as the idea of substance presents, a priori, an alternative, viz., those which are wholly fixed, the subject of law imposed from without only, and those which possess a power of changing their mode of being from within themselves; so, in point of fact, common observation has recognised in all ages two orders of substances or beings characterized by this difference, and filling up in the sphere of reality this alternative given by pure thought; the one being the ground of all natural phenomena, and ordinarily designated body; the other the ground of all moral and intellectual phenomena, and designated spirit.