This is a two volume set, this is volume 2. This work prepared by
Cardinal Mercier and and the Professors of the Higher Institutes of
Philosophy at Louvain prior to World War I is just as valuable
today, when truth is attacked from all quarters, including the
philosophical. Volume 1 contains Cosmology, Psychology,
Epistemology, Criteriology, General Metaphysics and Ontology Volume
2 contains Natural Theology, Logic, Ethics and a History of
Philosophy This work begins: "General View of Philosophy at the
Present Day.-Has philosophy the right to be named among human
sciences? What is its legitimate place among them? According to one
opinion which is seldom expressly formulated but which we may say
is none the less 'in the air', the special sciences have nowadays
monopolized everything that can be the object of such knowledge as
is certain and can be subjected to verification. In proportion as
our instruments of observation have become more perfect, the number
of special sciences has increased; and as each special science maps
out for itself a definite field of research, it would seem that
there is no room for any science other than the positive sciences.
If then philosophy has a claim to exist, it can only be as a
science outside positive science, busying itself with shadowy
speculations and contenting itself with fictions for its
conclusions or, at least, with conjectures that cannot be verified.
"Such an opinion arises from a failure to understand the role
philosophy thinks it right to assume and, in consequence, the scope
of its claims. Philosophy does not profess to be a particularized
science, with a place alongside other such sciences and a
restricted domain of its own for investigation; it comes after the
particular sciences and ranks above them, dealing in an ultimate
fashion with their respective objects, inquiring into their
connexions and the relations of these connexions, until finally it
arrives at notions so simple that they defy analysis and so general
that there is no limit to their application. So understood,
philosophy will exist as long as there are men endowed with the
ability and energy to push the inquiry of reason to its furthest
limit. So understood, it is a living fact, and it has a history of
more than two thousand years."
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