Basal concepts in philosophy : an inquiry into being, non-being, and becoming / Alexander T. Ormond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ormond, Alexander T. (Alexander Thomas), 1847-1915, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 308 pages)

Other Title:

Basal concepts in philosophy

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894.

Summary:

The motive of this volume is a desire to restore the primacy of certain conceptions which are in danger of disappearing from our modern thinking, and to reform others which, as I think, have been wrongly or inadequately conceived. Reflection has led me to dissent from monistic pantheism on the one hand, and from agnosticism on the other, two of the leading tendencies in the thought of our century, and to seek a metaphysical basis for philosophy that may adequately ground a rational theory of knowledge and being. With this end in view, I have sought to reconstruct philosophy upon the trinal categories of being, non-being, and becoming, and also to reform the current methods of metaphysics by showing that a completely rational idea of being can be achieved only when we represent it under our highest and most concrete categories and translate it into self-conscious personal spirit.

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