A Dictionary of Philosophy in the Words of Philosophers

by J. Radford Thomson

Publishers:

Reeves and Turner; R. D. Dickinson

, 1887

Overview

A Dictionary of Philosophy in the Words of Philosophers was written to provide the general public with a sampling of all major schools of philosophical thought, as presented by leading philosophers of the nineteenth century. Assembled by J. Radford Thomson, professor of philosophy in New College, London, and Hackney College, the dictionary contains essays, lectures, and other works by over 140 philosophers, including René Descartes, Franz Delitzsch, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, and John Locke, as well as other thinkers of philosophical consequence, like Charles Darwin and E. B. Pusey. This work presents a thematic introduction to philosophy by providing an overview of the significant ideas of each philosophical era.

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Key Features

• Excerpts, essays, and lectures from over 140 philosophers
• A thorough introduction to philosophy, its branches, and related scientific fields

Contents

Top Highlights

“It has been well said: ‘The business of Philosophy, in the true sense of the word, is to answer three questions—(1.) What can I know? (2.) What ought I to do? (3.) What may I hope for? These are the highest questions which can interest human beings.’” (Page viii)

“The most usual definition of Philosophy is ‘the study and knowledge of first principles.’ First principles may be taken as equivalent to unity amidst diversity,—to the causes or origins of all things,—to the universal, the necessary, the ultimate.” (Page vii)

“Mr. Herbert Spencer endeavours to define philosophy more exactly as ‘knowledge of the highest degree of generality;’ ‘Science is partially unified knowledge;’ ‘Philosophy is completely unified knowledge.’” (Page vii)

Praise for the Print Edition

. . . it will prove really serviceable, as what it professes to be, a dictionary of philosophy.

—Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Product Details

• Title: A Dictionary of Philosophy in the Words of Philosophers
• Author: J. Radford Thomson
• Publisher: Reeves and Turner
• Publication Date: 1887
• Pages: 517

About J. Radford Thomson

J. Radford Thomson was educated at Tunbridge Wells, and became a professor of philosophy at New College, London, and Hackney College. He is the author of Modern Pessimisim, Utilitarianism: An Illogical and Irreligious Theory of Morals, and Auguste Comte and the “Religion of Humanity.”