Author: Ernest Belfort Bax

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 9781330578964

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Excerpt from A Handbook of the History of Philosophy: For the Use of Students When I was requested to undertake the editing and revision for Bohn's Philosophical Library, of a new edition of 'Tennemann's Manual of the History of Philosophy,' a very brief examination sufficed to make it evident to me that the amount of correction and alteration required to bring the latter only approximately up to date would be such, that the last state of that manual would bid fair to resemble the condition of a certain relic associated with the Thirty Years War, respecting which we are told, the "head, neck, legs and part of the body have been renewed, all the rest is the real horse." It was therefore decided that I should undertake an entirely new volume on the subject. The plan adopted has been to give a more or less detailed account of those philosophers who either constitute epochs in the history of speculation, or at least have contributed something of their own toward its subsequent development, without filling the work unnecessarily with a mere crowd of names. Of course in the case of thinkers of subordinate importance, a selection made on this principle must always be open to criticism, but that there are no flagrant cases of partiality or carelessness is my conscientious belief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Handbook of the History of Philosophy written by Ernest Belfort Bax and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Handbook of the History of Philosophy: For the Use of Students When I was requested to undertake the editing and revision for Bohn's Philosophical Library, of a new edition of 'Tennemann's Manual of the History of Philosophy,' a very brief examination sufficed to make it evident to me that the amount of correction and alteration required to bring the latter only approximately up to date would be such, that the last state of that manual would bid fair to resemble the condition of a certain relic associated with the Thirty Years War, respecting which we are told, the "head, neck, legs and part of the body have been renewed, all the rest is the real horse." It was therefore decided that I should undertake an entirely new volume on the subject. The plan adopted has been to give a more or less detailed account of those philosophers who either constitute epochs in the history of speculation, or at least have contributed something of their own toward its subsequent development, without filling the work unnecessarily with a mere crowd of names. Of course in the case of thinkers of subordinate importance, a selection made on this principle must always be open to criticism, but that there are no flagrant cases of partiality or carelessness is my conscientious belief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.