British idealism : a history / W.J. Mander.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [568]-593) and index.

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The importance of British Idealism; 1.2 Common themes in British Idealism; 1.3 Terms of reference; 1.4 The history of philosophy; 2. Beginnings and Influences; 2.1 British philosophy in the mid-nineteenth century; 2.2 Kant; 2.3 Hegel; 2.4 A German import?; 2.5 Herman Lotze; 2.6 Literary influences on Idealism; 2.7 Forerunners of Idealism; 2.7.1 James Frederick Ferrier; 2.7.2 John Grote; 2.7.3 Benjamin Jowett; 2.7.4 James Martineau; 2.8 The success of Idealism. 3. The History of Philosophy3.1 Hegel; 3.1.1 William Wallace; 3.1.2 Edward Caird; 3.1.3 Further idealist scholarship on Hegel; 3.1.4 McTaggart; 3.2 Kant; 3.2.1 T.H. Green; 3.2.2 Edward Caird; 3.2.3 Further idealist scholarship on Kant; 3.3 The British Empiricist tradition; 3.3.1 T.H. Green; 3.3.2 Edward Caird; 3.4 Spinoza; 3.4.1 Edward Caird; 3.4.2 John Caird; 3.4.3 H.H. Joachim; 3.5 Plato and Aristotle; 3.5.1 Plato’s idealism; 3.5.2 Plato’s Republic; 3.5.3 Plato’s social conception of the individual. 3.5.4 Rejection of the two worlds? interpretation of Plato3.5.5 Aristotle’s idealism; 3.5.6 Aristotle’s social holism; 4. The Metaphysics of the Absolute; 4.1 T.H. Green; 4.1.1 Relations as the criterion of reality; 4.1.2 The mental nature of relations; 4.1.3 Objections to the Eternal Consciousness; 4.2 F.H. Bradley; 4.2.1 Relational experience; 4.2.2 Assessment of Bradley’s case; 4.2.3 Consequences of the relational argument; 4.2.4 Pre-relational experience; 4.2.5 Supra-relational experience; 4.2.6 Idealism. 4.3 Edward Caird. 4.3.1 Dialectic and progress; 4.3.2 The infinite; 4.3.3 Individual psychology; 4.4 Comparison; 4.4.1 Green and Caird; 4.4.2 Bradley and Caird; 4.4.3 Green and Bradley; 4.5 The School of Absolute Idealism; 5. Idealist Philosophy of Religion; 5.1 The Victorian crisis of faith?; 5.2 T.H. Green; 5.2.1 The search for a rational faith; 5.2.2 God as the Absolute; 5.2.3 A religion of moral and social duty; 5.2.4 De-mythologizing religion; 5.2.5 The influence of Green’s philosophy of religion; 5.3 John Caird. 5.3.1 The vindication of reason. 5.3.2 The necessity of religion; 5.3.3 The proper form of religious knowledge; 5.3.4 The Christian view of God; 5.3.5 Jesus Christ; 5.3.6 Immortality; 5.3.7 The problem of evil; 5.4 Edward Caird; 5.4.1 Avoiding the lion’s den; 5.4.2 The evolution of religion; 5.4.3 Three problems in Edward Caird’s philosophy of religion; 5.4.4 The influence of Edward Cairdâ’s philosophy of religion; 5.5 F.H. Bradley; 5.5.1 Religion and philosophy; 5.5.2 Religion and morality; 5.5.3 The contradiction of religion. 5.5.4 The truth of religions. W.J. Mander presents the first ever synoptic history of British idealism, the school of thought which dominated English-language philosophy from the 1860s to the early 20th century. He restores to its proper place this period of philosophy, introduces the exponents of idealism and explains its concepts and doctrines.

W.J. Mander presents the first ever synoptic history of British idealism, the school of thought which dominated English-language philosophy from the 1860s to the early 20th century. He restores to its proper place this period of philosophy, introduces the exponents of idealism and explains its concepts and doctrines.