The Career of Philosophy. Volume II. from the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin / / John Herman Randall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Randall, John Herman,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1965]; ©1965
• Year of Publication: 1965
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Continues the account of major philosophical currents in the west from Book 1. Shows the way philosophers reacted to the science of Galileo and Newton.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Book Five. Building the German Tradition -- 1. Leibniz and the Presuppositions of German Thought -- 2. Leibniz and the Mathematical Ordering of the Universe -- 3. The German Aufklärung -- 4. The Romantic Appeal to Experience -- 5. Kant's Pre-Criticai Philosophy of Science -- 6. Kant's Critical Philosophy of Science -- 7. Kant's Transcendental Idealism: The Theory of Ethics -- 8. Kant's Critique of Judgment: Teleology and Aesthetics -- 9. Kant's Philosophy of Politics and History -- 10. Romantic Idealism -- 11. Fichte and Idealistic Nationalism -- 12. Aesthetic Idealism: Die Romantik-Friedrich von Schlegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schleiermacher -- 13. Schelling: Nature, Art, and Existence -- 14. The Hegelian Synthesis: The Idealism of Social Experience -- 15. The Achievement of Hegel -- 16. Romantic Reinterpretations of Religion -- 17. Religious and Social Philosophies of the German Forty-Eighters -- 18. Existential and Dialectical Materialism: Marx and Engels -- Book Six. Consolidating the Revolution -- I. The Problems of Integrating French Culture -- 1. The Vision of the Revolution and the Protest of Tradition -- 2. The Bourgeois Compromise: Spiritualism and Eclecticism -- 3. Extending the Revolution -- 4. The Comtean Synthesis and the Organization of the Positivist Tradition -- II. British Problems-Tradition and Individualism -- 5. The Conservative Compromise: Burke, Newman, and Coleridge -- 6. Scottish Realism and Common Sense -- 7. Radical Liberalism: Bentham and James Mill -- 8. John Stuart Mill and the Working-Out of Empiricism -- 9. Utilitarian Social Philosophy -- 10. The Working-Out of Individualistic Liberalism: John Stuart Mill's Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion -- 11. The Reconstruction of Utilitarian Ethics -- Index