Abstract
FOR Prof. Weber the chief interest of his subject obviously lies in the post Kantian schools, and his own solution of the problem of philosophy, as shaped by the influence of the conceptions and methods of the natural sciences on the one hand, and by the exigencies of ideal and optimist ethics on the other, is in the direction of a “concrete spiritualism.” The key-word of this he finds in will or force rather than reason, but a Wille zum Guten in place of Schopenhauer's will to live. It is in virtue of his firm hold upon modern problems that his review of the way in which they have been historically evolved is so far successful that some, at least, of the dry bones of the History of Philosophy are made to live. Those writers whose antagonism to a dualist metaphysic makes them forerunners of the post-Kantian development—Bruno for example, and more especially Spinoza and Leibniz—are exceptionally well treated, and of the teachers who drew their inspiration from Kant, Fichte and Herbart, and particularly Schelling and Schopenhauer, are handled sympathetically and with discrimination.
History of Philosophy.
By Prof. A. Weber. Translated by Dr. F. Thilly. Pp. xi + 630. (London: Longmans and Co., 1896.)
System der Philosophic.
Von W. Wundt. Zweite umgearbeitete Auflage. Pp. xviii + 689. (Leipzig: Engelmann, 1897.)
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B., H. History of Philosophy System der Philosophic. Nature 56, 149–150 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056149a0
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