By I. FRITH.
Revised by Professor Moriz Carriere.
“The interest of the book lies in the conception of Bruno’s character and in the elucidation of his philosophy.... His writings dropped from him wherever he went, and were published in many places. Their number is very large, and the bibliographical appendix is not the least valuable part of this volume.... We are tempted to multiply quotations from the pages before us, for Bruno’s utterances have a rare charm through their directness, their vividness, their poetic force. Bruno stands in relation to later philosophy, to Kant or Hegel, as Giotto stands to Raphael. We feel the merit of the more complete and perfect work; but we are moved and attracted by the greater individuality which accompanies the struggle after expression in an earlier and simpler age. Students of philosophy will know at once how much labour has been bestowed upon this modest attempt to set forth Bruno’s significance as a philosopher. We have contented ourselves with showing how much the general reader may gain from a study of its pages, which are never overburdened by technicalities and are never dull.”—Athenæum.
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MORAL ORDER AND PROGRESS: AN ANALYSIS OF ETHICAL CONCEPTIONS.
By S. ALEXANDER, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.
This work is an account of the factors involved in the two central phenomena of Order or Equilibrium, and Progress, which are shown to be essential to morality. Its method is to group ethical facts under the main working conceptions of morality. It treats Ethics independently of Biology, but the result is to confirm the theory of Evolution by showing that the characteristic differences of moral action are such as should be expected if that theory were true. In particular, Book III. aims at proving that moral ideals follow, in their origin and development, the same law as natural species.
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THE SCIENCE OF KNOWLEDGE.
By J. G. FICHTE.