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THIS 42 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Essays in Philosophical Criticism, by Bernard Bosanquet. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766190293. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: S. Sonnenschein in 1893 in 405 pages; Subjects: Civilization, Christian; Ethics; Religion and ethics; Christian ethics; Civilization; Christianity; Agnosticism; Philosophy; History / General; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Religion / Reference; Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics; ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Macmillan in 1903 in 187 pages; Subjects: Logic; Mathematics / Logic; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / Logic; ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 55; v. 914; Original Published by: Macmillan in 1904 in 152 pages; Subjects: Psychology; Ethics; History / General; Law / General; Law / International; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Psychology / General; Psychology / Cognitive Psychology; Psychology / Emotions; ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: S. Sonnenschein in 1889 in 218 pages; Subjects: Social problems; Literary Collections / American / General; Literary Collections / Essays; ... Read more

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Where is Part II ?
It appears that the Kessinger Publishing version includes Part One ONLY - Don't expect to get BOTH volumes, unless KP expects to publish Part Two in the near future (?).

A classic development of Idealist logic.
In this massive two-volume work, Bernard Bosanquet offers what is arguablythe most complete development of Idealist logic ever set topaper.

Idealist logic has fallen out of fashion, though perhaps withlittle excuse. More or less "analytic" philosophers becomeexercised every now and then over the ontological status of propositions;perhaps they should remind themselves of an earlier tradition that beganinstead with the _judgment_ and never allowed the divorce between mind andreality which seemed to confer independent existence on the wraithlikeentities with which propositional logic deals.

For Bosanquet, as for theIdealists generally, there is not "knowledge" over here, on theone hand, and the reality it is "about" over there, on the other.As he puts it later (in _Implication and Linear Inference_), knowledge just_is_ reality itself _qua_ known, and that same reality is in some manner"constituting and maintaining itself in the form of truth" in thevery process of becoming and being known.

The knowledge of which logic isthe reflective analysis, as H.H. Joachim develops this view in _LogicalStudies_, is not something "in" the mind, on the one hand, andopposed to the reality it is "about," on the other; there is just"knowledge-or-truth" in some process of self-fulfillment orself-development, which simply _is_ reality manifesting itself; reality maybe more than this self-development, but it is not less. And it is _this_logic -- not abstract formal logic but the logic of reality's own"self-development" -- which Bosanquet discusses at length in thisclassic work.

Undoubtedly this way of putting things will sound strangeto modern readers, at least those who have not steeped themselves in theIdealist tradition. But in its way this approach to logic seems strangelyand naively correct; is there really a difference between reality "initself" and reality "as we understand it"? Granted that thelatter is always incomplete, but is it really of a different _character_from reality altogether? If so, how do we come to "know" anythingat all?

At the very least, Idealist logic deserves a second look in viewof the paradoxes to which formal "propositional" logic leads. Andthere is no better place to start than this great work, now all butforgotten.

Warning: Bosanquet is not the clearest writer ever born. Itwill be helpful to have a copy of -- say -- H.H. Joachim's aforementioned_Logical Studies_ at hand in order to work out what in the world Bosanquetis talking about.

Another helpful source is Brand Blanshard's _The Natureof Thought_, which in many respects advances the Idealist argument intogenuinely new territory. Blanshard later modified (indeed, all butabandoned) his view that an idea just _is_ its object _in posse_ and would,if developed, simply become identical with its object. But whether heshould have abandoned that view or not (I personally suspect not), hisdevelopment of it in _The Nature of Thought_ will be helpful to the readerwho wants to get a handle on Bosanquet. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1918Original Publisher: Macmillan and co., limitedSubjects: EthicsHistory / GeneralPhilosophy / Ethics ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: K. Paul, Trench & co. in 1885 in 393 pages; Subjects: Logic; Knowledge, Theory of; Reality; Judgment (Logic); Judgment (Logic); Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / Logic; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern; ... Read more

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Publisher: Oxford At The Clarendon Press.Publication date: 1911Subjects: PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGYNature and role of philosophyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: S. Sonnenschein; Publication date: 1893; Subjects: Civilization, Christian; Ethics; History / General; Philosophy / Ethics ... Read more