The Approach to Philosophy

by Ralph Barton Perry

[359:4] Emerson: Essays, Second Series, pp. 65-66.

[364:5] Emerson: Op. cit., p. 25.

The possibility of conflict between this method of nature study and the empirical method of science is significantly attested by the circumstance that in the year 1801 Hegel published a paper in which he maintained, on the ground of certain numerical harmonies, that there could be no planet between Mars and Jupiter, while at almost exactly the same time Piazzi discovered Ceres, the first of the asteroids.

[368:6] McTaggart: Studies in Hegelian Dialectic, p. 181.

[369:7] Green: Prolegomena to Ethics, p. 15.

[370:8] Plato: The Sophist, 248. Translation by Jowett.

[382:9] Hegel: Encyclopädie, § 45, lecture note. Quoted by McTaggart: Op. cit., p. 69.

[382:10] Hegel: Encyclopädie, § 50. Quoted by McTaggart: Op. cit., p. 70.

[385:11] Royce: Conception of God, pp. 19, 43-44. This argument is well summarized in Green's statement that "the existence of one connected world, which is the presupposition of knowledge, implies the action of one self-conditioning and self-determining mind." Prolegomena to Ethics, p. 181.

[387:12] Kant: Critical Examination of Practical Reason. Translated by Abbott in Kant's Theory of Ethics, p. 180.