The Nature of Existence I (töredék)

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McTaggart is now regarded by many as the most important of the . Anglo-Hegelian or Idealistic philosophers who dominated British anfi American philosophical thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. C. D. Broad claimed in his 1927 British Academy Lecture that with The Nature of Existence McTaggart had earned a place'among the immortals' of philosophy and he ranked that work with such classics as Plotinus' Enneads, Spinoza's Ethics and Hegel's Encyclopedia. More recently there has b^en an increasing interest in and respectforhis workamong philosophers and intellectual historians.
McTaggart presents in these two volumes a personal theory of the nature of the universe. The first volume sets out 'to determine as far as possible the characteristics which belong to all that exists, or which belong to existence as a whole'. The second is an empirical enquiry into the consequences of theoretical or practical interest that can be drawn from the general nature of the... Tovább

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McTaggart is now regarded by many as the most important of the . Anglo-Hegelian or Idealistic philosophers who dominated British anfi American philosophical thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. C. D. Broad claimed in his 1927 British Academy Lecture that with The Nature of Existence McTaggart had earned a place'among the immortals' of philosophy and he ranked that work with such classics as Plotinus' Enneads, Spinoza's Ethics and Hegel's Encyclopedia. More recently there has b^en an increasing interest in and respectforhis workamong philosophers and intellectual historians.
McTaggart presents in these two volumes a personal theory of the nature of the universe. The first volume sets out 'to determine as far as possible the characteristics which belong to all that exists, or which belong to existence as a whole'. The second is an empirical enquiry into the consequences of theoretical or practical interest that can be drawn from the general nature of the universe.
This reissue makes McTaggart's work available for the first time in paperback.
'Thisworkisunquestionably a masterpiece, and, to my mind, the greatest piece of constructive metaphysics that has appeared in England since Berkeley.' Journal of the Philosophical Society
'There seems to me to be no doubt that The Nature of Existence is the most important attempt at the construction of an a priori metaphysical system that has been produced in this generation.'
The Nation and Athenaeum Vissza