INSTITUTES OF METAPHYSIC THE THEORY OF KNOWING AND BEING BY JAMES F. FERRIER, A.B. OXON. PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY, ST ANDREWS WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLIV 265.4.9. CONTENT S. Page of philosophy, INTRODUCTION. 1. The word "philosophy" as here employed, 2. The two main requisitions of philosophy, 3. Which of them is the more stringent, 4. The value of systems determined by a reference to these requisitions, 5. An unreasoned system of no value, because at variance with definition 6. Because, though true, it cannot be certain, 7. Because of no use as a mental discipline, 8. A reasoned system, though not true, has some value as an exercise of 9. It complies more closely with definition of philosophy than the other, 12. The present state of philosophy described, 13. First, How is this state to be explained? Secondly, How remedied? 17. Its unsatisfactory state further accounted for. The globe of speculation, 20. Illustration continued, 21. Illustration from logic, 1 ib. 2 ib. ib. 3 ib. 22. Illustration from law, ib. 23. Application to philosophy. Here, too, first principles come out last, 15 16 25. Hence philosophy is nowhere a scheme reasoned throughout, 26. The repudiation of necessary truths, a further retarding cause, 28. Its criterion is "the law of contradiction." Law explained, 29. Its criterion is not ready acceptance, 17 19 ib. 20 22 30. Return. Philosophy deals with necessary truths-therefore retarded by their proscription, ib. a |