Kurzbeschreibung
In the preface to that admirable collection of essays of his called' Heretics,' Mr. Chesterton writes these words: " There are some people - and I am one of them - who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe. We think that for a landlady considering a lodger it is important to know his income, but still more important to know his philosophy. We think that for a general about to fight an enemy it is important to know the enemy's numbers, but still more important to know the enemy's philosophy. We think the question is not whether the theory of the cosmos affects matters, but whether in the long run anything else affects them." I think with Mr. Chesterton in this matter. I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you
Table of Contents LECTURE I; The Present Dilemma in Philosophy 3; Chesterton quoted, 3 Everyone has a philosophy, 4 Temperament is a factor in all philosophizing, 7 Rationalists and empiricists, 9 The tender-minded and the tough-minded, 12 Most men wish both facts and religion, 15 Empiricism gives facts without religion, 16 Rationalism gives religion without facts, 17 The layman's dilemma, 19 The unreality in rationalistic systems, 21 Leibnitz on the damned, as an example, 2S M I Swift on the optimism of idealists, 27 Pragmatism as a mediating system, 31 An objection, 34 Reply: philosophies have characters like men, and are liable to as summary judgments, 35 Spencer as an example, 39; LECTURE II; What Pragmatism Means43; The squirrel, 43 Pragmatism as a method, 45 History of the method, 46 Its character and affinities, 51 How it contrasts with rationalism and intellectualism, 52 A 'corridor theory,' 54 Pragmatism as a theory of truth, equivalent to 'humanism,' 55 Earlier views of mathematical, logical, and natural truth, 56 More recent views, 57 Schille