Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
- 2 RALPH WALDO EMERSON AND THE AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISTS
- 3 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND THE TRACTARIAN MOVEMENT
- 4 DREY, MÖHLER AND THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL OF TÜBINGEN
- 5 ROMAN CATHOLIC MODERNISM
- 6 RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
- 7 BRITISH AGNOSTICISM
- 8 THE BRITISH IDEALISTS
- 9 WILLIAM JAMES AND JOSIAH ROYCE
- INDEX
8 - THE BRITISH IDEALISTS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
- 2 RALPH WALDO EMERSON AND THE AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISTS
- 3 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND THE TRACTARIAN MOVEMENT
- 4 DREY, MÖHLER AND THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL OF TÜBINGEN
- 5 ROMAN CATHOLIC MODERNISM
- 6 RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
- 7 BRITISH AGNOSTICISM
- 8 THE BRITISH IDEALISTS
- 9 WILLIAM JAMES AND JOSIAH ROYCE
- INDEX
Summary
Idealism was the type of philosophical thought which dominated British philosophy, and thereby a great deal of philosophy in other parts of the world, in the second half of the nineteenth century and especially towards the close of the century; indeed, so extensive and powerful was the influence of this movement that many of its practitioners came to believe that it was finally established as the philosophy of the future, allowing of refinements and new applications but no question of its fundamental principles. It had come to stay. Rarely has confidence been so ill justified. Until very recently little attention has been paid in our time to idealistic thinkers in this country or indeed in other parts of the world. Even when they are mentioned with respect they are rarely examined or read or given a place in the curricula of universities in the main part of the present century. One figure alone, namely F. H. Bradley, kept his place in the interests of philosophers, and that for the most part was confined to a few devoted admirers. He was paid a grudging respect but largely disregarded. Other notable figures passed almost entirely out of the interest of contemporary philosophers, and they were treated with outright contempt.
There have persisted throughout this period some very gifted idealistic thinkers, such as, in our time, Brand Blanshard, R. G. Mure, T. M. Knox, H. J. Paton, and Errol Harris. Others, without subscribing wholly to idealist principles have accepted them in certain regards and drawn much from them for the inspiration of their own work, for example A. C. Ewing and C. A. Campbell.
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- Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West , pp. 271 - 314Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985
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