The Pragmatic Humanism of F. C. S. Schiller / Reuben Abel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abel, Reuben, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1955]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looks at the life and works of F.C.S. Schiller during the late 1800's and early 1900's as a prolific writer. Studies his conviction that all acts and thoughts are products of individual humans and therefore inescapably colored by their wants, desires, and purposes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Logic and Psychology

III. Schiller's Critique of Formal Deductive Logic

IV. Axioms and the Laws of Thought

V. Philosophy of Science

VI. The Problems of Inductive Logic

VII. Evaluation of Schiller's Logic

VIII. The Making of Truth

IX. Metaphysics and Psychology: The Making of Reality

X. Value Theory: Ethics and Religion

XI. Freedom and Determinism

XII. Psychical Research

XIII. Social Philosophy

XIV. Schiller's Contribution to Philosophy

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89644-1

OCLC:

1100431050