Lectures on Modern Idealism Book

LECTURES ON MODERN IDEALISM BY JOSIAH EOYCE NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON HUMPHREY MILPOED OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MDCCCCXIX COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS TABLE OP CONTENTS. PAGE Editors Preface vii Lecture I. Kants Conception of the Nature and the Conditions of Knowl edge ..... 1 Lecture II. The Modification of Kants Con ception of the Self . . 31 Lecture III. The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method . . 63 Lecture IV. The Dialectical Method in Schell ing 87 Lecture V. Sehellings Transcendental Ideal ism ..... 115 Lecture VI. Hegels Phaenomenologie des Geistes ..... 136 Lecture VII. Types of Individual and Social Consciousness in Hegels Phae nomenologie . . . . 161 Lecture VIII. The Dialectical Progress of Hegels Phaenomenologie . . . 187 Lecture IX. Hegels Mature System . . 213 Lecture X. Later Problems of Idealism and its Present Position . . .232 Index 261 THE JAMES WESLEY COOPER MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND THE present volume is the third work published by the Yale University Press on the James Wesley Cooper Me morial Publication Fund. This Foundation was estab lished March 30, 1918, by a gift to Yale University from Mrs. Ellen H. Cooper in memory of her husband, Rev. James Wesley Cooper, D. D., who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, October 6, 1842, and died in New York City, March 16, 1916. Dr. Cooper was a member of the Class of 1865, Yale College, and for twenty-five years pastor of the South Congregational Church of New Britain, Connecticut. For thirty years he was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and from 1885 until the time of his death was a Fellow of Yale University, serving on the Corporation as one of the Successors of the Original Trustees. EDITORS PREFACE. THE lectures here published were first delivered at the Johns Hopkins University in 1906 under the title Aspects of Post-Kantian Idealism. They were, in their present form at least, not originally in tended for publication, but a note, dated 1907, found among Professor Royees manuscripts mentions these Baltimore Lectures as material worth publishing. This entitles them to head the list of his posthumous works. Written as they were for oral delivery the lectures required much revision the editor hopes he has not used his pen too freely. The subject-matter of these lectures is one that, in a more biographical way, has already been treated in The Spirit of Modern Philosophy. The present exposition of post-Kantian idealism, however, is by no means a repe tition of the former one. In the earlier book, in which the charm and the depth of Royces writing reach per haps their happiest union, the interest is general rather than technical, the tone is popular rather than profes sional. It contains a rapid survey and not a detailed analysis of the period in question. Yet no other work of his exhibits perhaps in the same degree the glory of words, the art of vivid phrasing, the gift of graphic and pleasing metaphor, the skill of forcing subtle and difficult ideas into luminous and concrete expression. It is indeed one of the finest feats of Royces reflective vii EDITORS PREFACE imagination. As a work of deep speculation touched with warm feeling, of historical research cast in original mould, the book has a unique and permanent place in our philosophic literature. To literary distinction such as the Spirit of Modern Philosophy possesses the present lectures can evidently lay no claim. In range and depth, however, they surpass the chronicle of the same period in the earlier volume. There we have but a brief recital of the main phases of post-Kantian doctrine, here an examination of its his torical foundation, its logical roots, its human as well as its technical motives. The selection of topics is here more rigorous and the interest more prevailingly theo retical. Moreover, what is here deliberately avoided is the familiar and conventional reproduction of post-Kant ian thought...Read More