Spencers Synthetic Philosophy Vol 8

Author : Benjamin Franklin Underwood
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230438573
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy written by Benjamin Franklin Underwood and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... HERBERT SPENCER'S SYNTHETIC PHILOSOPHY. By B. F. Undekwood. The movement imparted to philosophy by the application of the " Newtonian method to philosophical problems gave rise to that form of sensationalism which originated with Locke and culminated with Hume. Its motto was: Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu. Before this movement was started philosophical tenets ) were principally deduced from "innate ideas." Descartes H, had appealed to the innate idea of God as ens realissimum, N as supreme truth, with which all philosophy had to conform; and to Leibnitz innate ideas afforded the main premi ises for philosophical deductions. But, of course, if there 'i is nothing in mind but what enters into it through the senses, there can not be any innate ideas, such, for instance, as an innate idea of " God " or of "immortal soul." All j knowledge must, then, be derived from sensorial experience.-' The negative or destructive phase of the sensation philosophy resulted consistently in the annihilation of all ideas. not sense-derived. Its positive or constructive phase con; v sisted in the attempt to build up knowledge out of sensorial. data alone. v, Berkeley dissipated the idea of the "extended substance,";or matter as externally subsisting, by showing that the sensorial elements entering into the idea of matter--its primary xjualities, such as extension, form, etc., as well as its secondary qualities, such as hardness, color, etc.--that all these-ejements, without exception, are subjective, mere modes of."feeling; that the belief that there exists an extended, formed, hard, and colored substance outside the perceiving mind is an illusion. Berkeley made use of this way of reasoning to combat materialism, and to glorify the idea of...