From critical to speculative idealism; the philosophy of Solomon Maimon / by Samuel Atlas Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York City.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atlas, Samuel, 1899-1977.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maimon, Salomon, 1754-1800.

Maimon, Salomon.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 335 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, 1964.

Contents:

Introduction

The thing in itself

The Copernican Revolution in philosophy: subject and object

The Copernican Revolution: subject and consciousness

Infinite mind

Infinitesimals of sensation

Levels of cognition

Principle of determinability

Time and space

Antinomies

Philosophy and mathematics; Maimon's conception of philosophy

Maimon's skepticism and its relation to critical and dogmatic philosophy

Contemporaneous Philosophy: Maimon and Reinhold; Maimon and Aenesidemus-Schulez; Maimon and Fichte; Correspondence of Fichte-Maimon

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

"Here we deal with some of the fundamental themes of Maimon's philosophy, including his examination of Kant's philosophy, his relation to such immediate post-Kantians as Reinhold and Schulze, and the relation between him and Fichte."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph "Herman Potok February 1965 New York City".

Potok Collection copy has [2] pages from Hebrew journal laid in.

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations throughout.

OCLC:

519636