English philosophers and schools of philosophy / by James Seth.

  • James Seth
Date:
1912
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    PREFACE The aim of this volume is to present, not a history of English philosophy, but a study of the greater English philosophers in their relation to one another as the leaders in the general movement of English philosophy. Such an exhaustive account of the subject as will be found, so far as the seventeenth century is concerned, in Charles de Remusat’s Histoire de la Philosophie en Angle- terre depuis Bacon jusqu*a Locke, or in Professor Sorley’s admirable chapters in The Cambridge History of English Literature, lies entirely beyond the scope of the present work. The same may be said of such a treatment as Green’s in his well-known Introduction to Hume’s Treatise, or Professor Forsyth’s in his recent careful and suggestive study of the 4 method and general develop¬ ment ’ of English Philosophy.1 My effort has been to concentrate attention on the epoch-making philosophers rather than on the less important figures in the movement, and on the actual thought of the individual philosophers rather than on the logical sequence of English philo¬ sophy as a chapter in the development of ideas. More¬ over, in accordance with the plan of the Series, as well as in accordance with the facts of the case, English philo¬ sophy has been regarded as a form of English literature. At the same time the term 4 philosophy ’ has been in- 1 English Philosophy: a Study of its Method and General Develop¬ ment, by Thomas M. Forsyth (1910).
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