The Spirit of Modern Philosophy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Josiah Royce

Overview

This 1892 collection contains thirteen essays divided into two parts:  "Studies of Thinkers and Problems," which addresses such philosophers as Kant, Spinoza, Hegel, Fichte, and Schopenhauer, and "Suggestions of Doctrine," which explores such subjects as "Nature and Evolution," "Reality and Idealism," and "Optimism, Pessimism, and the Moral Order."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411461109
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	07/19/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	548
File size:	524 KB

About the Author

Josiah Royce (1855-1916) was an American idealist philosopher profoundly influenced by Hegel. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley and, at the behest of his friend and intellectual adversary William James, at Harvard. His best-known works include The Religious Aspect of Philosophy (1885), The Spirit of Modern Philosophy (1892), Studies of Good and Evil (1898), and The World and the Individual (1900-01).