Word: view
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Idealism, as it has been stated in Lecture X, asserts the existence of an Universal Mind or World-Logos, but seems incapable at first of explaining any fact of experience, or of solving the concrete problems of life. In view of this defect of what one may call abstract Idealism, the present lecture undertakes to assume, at first, the Realistic attitude towards the world, and to re-examine the fundamental questions of philosophy from this point of view. This change of point of view will in the end prove instructive, and will lead to a return to Idealism...
...conclusion, this view, which holds that the world of mechanism is itself essentially "teleological." is applied to the case of the relation between body and mind, and to the problem of human "Freedom." The latter is solved in the sense of Kant's famous doctrine of the "two-fold" human nature, "empirical" and "transcendental," "fatal" and "free...
There are various other changes of greater or less importance in the other departments. The make-up of the catalogue is somewhat changed in view of the grouping of three departments under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Full importance is given to the Graduate School which attempts are being made to make as attractive as possible by the concentration there of all available scholarships...
...leave on the 20th of this mouth, travelling by way of Panma, and reaching Arequipa, near which is the observatory, about the last of January. The work will be an extension of the work done here on the Southern stars. Peru is sufficiently far south to get a comprehensive view of the southern stars, and, moreover, being a country with little rain, has a very clear atmosphere. Two new instruments will be carried down, one to photograph a map and the spectrum of the stars, the other to measure their brightness. Photographs will also be taken of clusters and double...
...stories, "An Unwarranted Inspiration," by Mr. W. F. Brown, is the best. It is carefully written, yet is very easy and smooth. In view of the rather slender plot, the interest is well kept up to the end and the surprise comes in effectively...