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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Modern philosophy
    sub title: from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: Bowen, Francis
    name part: 1811-1890
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: History.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1877
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 484 pages)
  abstract: "It has not been my purpose in this work to write a complete History of Modern Philosophy. Such an undertaking, if fitly carried out, would far exceed the limits within which wished to keep, and would compel me to enter into some wearisome details. I have endeavored to present a full analysis and criticism of the systems only of those great thinkers whose writings have permanently influenced the course of European thought, paying most attention to the earlier French and later German philosophers, with whom comparatively few English readers are at all familiar. Hence I have said little about Hobbes or Locke, Hume, Reid, or Hamilton, whose writings are accessible to all, and who ought not to be studied by thoughtful and earnest inquirers at second hand. But the great names of Descartes, Spinoza, and Malebranche, of Leibnitz and Kant, of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, are little more than names with most English students, even including many of those who assume to weigh their systems against each other and to dogmatize respecting their merits and defects. Perhaps the experience of one whose duty it has been for many years to lecture upon their writings to large classes of University students may have been valuable, in so far as it has induced the endeavor to make intelligible what is abstruse and obscure, and to render a discussion interesting which may appear at first sight repulsive, though it is really important and profound. I believe that Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, to mention no others, have not been fairly appreciated by English students of philosophy, because they have not been thoroughly understood, probably for the reason that metaphysical thought on the Continent of Europe generally assumes a pedantic and technical garb to which the countrymen of Locke and Berkeley are not habituated, and for which they have an instinctive dislike. A translation of their works, however faithfully executed, is even more obscure than the original, as it sacrifices the advant…
  note: By Francis Bowen.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Modern
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Modern
  classification: B791 .B7
  classification: 190 B786M3
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    title info:
      title: Modern philosophy
    name:
      name part: Bowen, Francis, 1811-1890.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Co., 1877
    identifier: (DLC) 10029925
    identifier: (OCoLC)526177
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    title info:
      title: ATLA monograph preservation program ; ATLA fiche 1989-0093
  identifier: 0790536005 (microfiche)
  identifier: 9780790536002 (microfiche)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 090107
    record change date: 20260612153005.1
    record identifier: in00003520100
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng