BY PROF. RALPH BARTON PERRY

RALPH BARTON PERRY, Ph.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY

CHAPTER I THE PRACTICAL MAN AND THE PHILOSOPHER Is Philosophy a Merely Academic Interest?

CHAPTER II POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY Who is the Philosopher-Poet?

CHAPTER III THE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE The Possibility of Defining Religion.

CHAPTER IV THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF RELIGION REsumE of Psychology of Religion.

CHAPTER V NATURAL SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY The True Relations of

PART II THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY

CHAPTER VI METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY The Impossibility of an

CHAPTER VII THE NORMATIVE SCIENCES AND THE PROBLEMS OF RELIGION The Normative Sciences.

PART III SYSTEMS OF PHILOSOPHY

CHAPTER VIII NATURALISM [223:1] The General Meaning of Materialism.

CHAPTER IX SUBJECTIVISM [267:1] Subjectivism Originally Associated with Relativism and Scepticism.

CHAPTER X ABSOLUTE REALISM [306:1] The Philosopher's Task, and the Philosopher's Object, or the Absolute.

CHAPTER XI ABSOLUTE IDEALISM [349:1] General Constructive Character of Absolute Idealism.

CHAPTER XII CONCLUSION Liability of Philosophy to Revision, Due to its Systematic Character.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.

INDEX

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