A History of Philosophy Volume VIII Modern Philosophy Bentham to Russel Part 1 by Frederick Copleston

A History of Philosophy Volume VIII Modern Philosophy Bentham to Russel Part 1 by Frederick Copleston

British Empiricism and the Idealist movement in Great Britain

The full story of nineteenth-century philosophy is covered in Father Copleston's eighth volume of A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. The series itself is among the most remarkable singlehanded scholarly enterprises in recent times. It has already been said of this volume that it "may well have the widest appeal of all."

Volume 8 opens with an examination of the utilitarian movements of the nineteenth century, the empiricism of

J. S. Mill, and the philosophy of Herbert Spencer. It then moves to a thorough consideration of the idealist movement in Great Britain from its literary pioneers, like Coleridge and Carlyle, to Bradley, Bosanquet, and McTaggart. The next part of the book is devoted respectively to idealism in America and to the pragmatist movement from C. S. Pierce to John Dewey. In the concluding section of the book, Father Copleston discusses modern realism in Britain and America and Moore's practice of analysis. The three final chapters are given over to an intensive study of the philosophy of Bertrand Russell. There is also an Epilogue on more recent trends in British philosophy and an Appendix on John Henry Newman.

Details

• Paperback
• Condition: Very good
• ISBN: 0385016379
• Publishing House: Image Books, 19667