Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Origin of Kant's Philosophy is the Problem of Human Reason as the Eighteenth Century had developed this problem. The problem was: How can the Truth which not only Theology, but also common sense and natural science pretend to know about our world, be defended against skepticism? Our human powers being once for all so limited, how can any genuine truth of any sort be known...
...necessity unknown to us. We can know in a theoretical sense only the things that appear to our senses, i.e., the Phenomena of the World of Show. Neither common sense, nor science, nor theology, can, with theoretical assurance, carry us beyond the world as it seems to our human powers of observation and experience...
...particular, Space and Time can be shown to be more Forms of our Human sense-consciousness, and to have no relation to Things in Themselves. The unknowable real world without us exists therefore neither in space nor in time. We know not how this world exists at all; we only recognize that it exists...
Professor Royce began by saying that this period was one of marked contrast with the time of Spinoza. The seventeenth century trusted to reason but later the world was driven to the study of human nature rather than physical. The lecturer went on to show how valuable is doubt. The skeptic is indispensable. The four great ages of doubt have done the world more good than six centuries of faith...
Hume was born in Edinburgh, 1711, died 1776. His "History of England" appeared in 1754-1762. His first philosophical treatise, the "Treatise on Human Nature," was written between 1734 and 1737. His "Essays" appeared in 1748. The Philosophical Works have been edited in four volumes by Green and Grose, London, 1874-75. On this whole period one may read Leslie Stephen's "History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century...