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The Unknowable - A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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The Unknowable - A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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W. J. Mander presents a history of metaphysics in
nineteenth-century Britain. The story focuses on the elaboration
of, and differing reactions to, the concept of the unknowable or
unconditioned, first developed by Sir William Hamilton in the 1829.
The idea of an ultimate but unknowable way that things really are
in themselves may be seen as supplying a narrative arc that runs
right through the metaphysical systems of the period in question.
These thought schemes may be divided into three broad groups which
were roughly consecutive in their emergence but also overlapping as
they continued to develop. In the first instance there were the
doctrines of the agnostics who developed further Hamilton's basic
idea that fundamental reality lies for the great part beyond our
cognitive reach. These philosophies were followed immediately by
those of the empiricists and, in the last third of the century, the
idealists: both of these schools of thought-albeit in profoundly
different ways-reacted against the epistemic pessimism of the
agnostics. Mander offers close textual readings of the main
contributions to First Philosophy made by the key philosophers of
the period (such as Hamilton, Mansel, Spencer, Mill, and Bradley)
as well as some less well known figures (such as Bain, Clifford,
Shadworth Hodgson, Ferrier, and John Grote). By presenting,
interpreting, criticising, and connecting together their various
contrasting ideas, this book explains how the three traditions
developed and interacted with one another to comprise the history
of metaphysics in Victorian Britain.
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