Metaphysics Of Sir William Ham

Author : Francis Bowen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484279239
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, Collected, Arranged, and Abridged, for the Use of Colleges and Private Students (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Bowen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, Collected, Arranged, and Abridged, for the Use of Colleges and Private Students IT is unfortunate that Sir William Hamilton did not undertake fully to digest his metaphysical opinions into system, a and to publislfd them as one 01derly and connected whole. He had a system, fo1 he was eminently a method ical and self consistent thinker but it was built up piece meal, and so given to the world, at various times, in succes sive articles in the Edinburgh Review; in copious notes, appendices, and other additions to these articles when they were republished as a volume of Discussions, and again, when these Discussions passed to a second edition in the Notes, and, still more at length, in the Supplementai y Disse1tations, to his ponderous edition of Reid; and finally, in the memoranda p1epa1 ed at different times and for va1i ous purposes, which his English editors gathered up and annexed to the posthumous publication of his Lectu1es on Metaphysics. While neither of these works furnishes an outline of his system as a whole, each one of them con tains a statement, more or less complete, of his principal doctrines and arguments, so that, taken together, they abound in repetitions. Even the Lectures, which afford the nearest approach to a full and systematic exposition of his opinions, besides laboring under the necessary disad vantage of a posthumous publication, never finally revised by the author for the press, and probably not even intended by him to be printed, were first written by him 1n g1eat haste at the time (1836) of his o1iginal appointment to a Professorship ln the Univeisity of Edinburgh, and seem to have received but few subsequent alte1ations or additions, though his opinions certainly underwent afterwards con siderable development and modification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.