Outlines of Metaphysic: Dictated Portions of the Lectures of Hermann Lotze

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Ginn, Heath & Company, 1884 - First philosophy - 166 pages
 

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Page vii - Gottingen, and for a few months at Berlin) as formulated by Lotze himself, recorded in the notes of his hearers, and subjected to the most competent and thorough revision of Professor Rehnisch of Gottingen. The Outlines give, therefore, a mature and trustworthy statement, in language selected by this teacher of philosophy himself, of what may be considered as his final opinions upon a wide range of subjects. They have met with no little favor in Germany.
Page 17 - ... sense (vol. vi, p. 4). He refutes the complaint of other critics that to jump from one sense of ' the One ' to another would be contrary to the aim of the method announced, which ought to consider the consequences of affirming and denying the same hypothesis (ibid., p. 8). * As Lotze wrote : ' The simplest of the conceptions here employed, that of a thing and that of its being, however lucid they appear at first, on closer consideration grow always more obscure.
Page 152 - Value of what is valuable has existence only in the spirit that enjoys it, therefore all apparent actuality is only a system of contrivances, by means of which this determinate world of phenomena, as well as these determinate metaphysical habitudes for considering the world of phenomena, are called forth, in order that the aforesaid Highest Good may become for the spirit an object of enjoyment in all the multiplicity of forms possible to it.

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