Volume 1
A history of philosophy / by Johann Eduard Erdmann ; translated and edited by Williston S. Hough.
- Johann Eduard Erdmann
- Date:
- [1997]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: A history of philosophy / by Johann Eduard Erdmann ; translated and edited by Williston S. Hough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![disfigures the otherwise valuable works of Tennemann.^ Fichte’s doctrine could neither rule long nor stimulate to historical studies ; and thus it had at the most this result for the treatment of history, that the canon was established even more firmly than in Kant, that progress consisted in the com- pensation of one-sided oppositions. Far more lasting was the effect of Schelling’s philosophy ;^ what could alone be re- gretted was, that the individual differences of the subject- matter were obliterated by the ready-made scheme applied to it. The peculiar views on the history of philosophy, and of ancient philosophy in particular, which Schleiermacher de- veloped in his lectures, had already long been made known to the reading public through others,^ when they were published after his death.^ To some extent this was also the case witt Hegel, with whose way of regarding isolated portions of the history of philosophy and of its course, disciples® and readers of his works® familiarized the world, long before his lectures on the history of philosophy^ were placed before it. The greater part, however, of the historical works proceeding from the Hegelian school treat only of isolated periods, although some ® also attempt to narrate the history of philosophy as a whole. Connected with these are the surveys attempted from ^ W. G. Tennemann : Geschichte der Philosophie. Leipzig, 1794, 12 vols. (unfinished). The same : Grundn'ss der Philosophie^ 1812. 5th ed. by Wendt, 1829. (Distinguished by its copious bibliography. Often translated.) ^ J. G. Steck : die Geschichte der Philosophie. Part I. Riga, 1805. F. Ast : Grundriss einer Geschichte der Philosophie. Landshut, 1807, 2nd ed., 1825. T. A. Rixner : llandhtich der Geschichte der Philosophie. 3 vols. Sulzbach, 1822. A supplementary 4th vol. to the 2nd ed. in 1850, by V. P., Gumposch. ^ E.g. in H. Ritter’s Geschichte der ionischen Philosophie. Berlin, 1821. ^ F. Schleiermacher: Geschichte der Philosophie.^ edited by H. Ritter. Berlin, 1839. (Schleiermacher’s works, 3rd Div., 4th vol., ist part.) ® As Rotscher, in his : Arisiophaiies und sein Zeitalter, 1827, where Hegel’s views about Socrates are developed. ® Windischmann : Kritische Betrachtujigen iiber die Schicksale der Philosophie in der 7ieueren Zeit^ etc. Frankfurt a. M., 1825, The same : Die Philosophic ivi Fortgange der Weltgeschichte. Bonn, 1827. Parti.; the principles of philo- sophy in the East. Book I., China; Book II., India. ^ G. W. Hegel’s ; Vorlesujigen iiber Geschichte der Philosophic., edited by Michelet (Works : vols. 13-15). Berlin, 1833. ® G. O. Marbach: Lelwbnch des Geschichte der Philosophie (Part I. Anti- quity, H. Middle Ages, HI. [wanting]). Leipsic, 1838-41. A. Schwegler : Geschichte der Philosophie vn Umriss. Stuttgart, 1848. 14th ed., 1887.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2900102x_0001_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
