This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... 184 LECTURE VI. THE POSSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHY AS SYSTEM: SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHY AND HEGEL. Our position being thus denned in reference to Eelativism and Agnosticism, there remains the important question of the relation of Scottish philosophy, or at least of what we hold to be the legitimate outcome of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... 184 LECTURE VI. THE POSSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHY AS SYSTEM: SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHY AND HEGEL. Our position being thus denned in reference to Eelativism and Agnosticism, there remains the important question of the relation of Scottish philosophy, or at least of what we hold to be the legitimate outcome of Scottish philosophy, to what has been called by Professor Fraser "Gnosticism" -- i.e., to philosophy as a closed circle or completed system, in some such form as it is presented, for example, by Hegel. If we repudiate Relativism, are we prepared to be called Absolutists? A question, similar in its terms, was essayed by Hamilton in his celebrated article on the Philosophy of the Conditioned, and in his repeated attacks upon the doctrines of the Absolute. I do not propose to traverse once more that deserted field of battle; but as the very term Absolute associates itself to Scottish ears with Hamilton, a few words of explanation may serve to remove misapprehensions. In regard to this particular controversy, time has brought us nearer to the Continent than we were in the beginning of the century, and has enabled us to see that, in the case of Hegel at least, the issue raised by Sir W. Hamilton is an entirely false one. The point which Hamilton makes, Hegel would be the last man in the world to deny. The Absolute, whose unknowableness Hamilton maintains, is, in his own words, a thing existing "not under relation" --" the absolute negation of all relation." It is "absolutely one," and "absolute unity is convertible with the absolute negation of plurality and difference." Hence "intelligence whose essence is plurality--the plurality of subject and object--cannot be identified with the Absolute."1 In other words, the Absolute against which Hamilton...
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