Problems Of Life And Mind - Softcover

George Henry Lewes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371890128 ISBN 13: 9780371890127

Publisher: HardPress

Synopsis

Problems Of Life And Mind: The Principles Of Certitude. From The Known To The Unknown. Matter And Force. Force And Cause. The Absolute In The Correlations Of Feeling And Motion. Appendix: Imaginary Geometry And The Truth Of Axioms. Lagrange And Hegel: The Speculative Method. Action At A Distance by George Henry Lewes. This late-19th?century analytic philosopher builds an empirical realist epistemology that treats knowledge as the systematization of experience centered on Feeling and the social and linguistic signs that classify it. Science is presented as an ideal construction verifiable by its ability to reproduce or predict felt experiences, not a direct transcript of Reality. The work argues for a twofold nature of existence—real felt aspects and ideal symbolic aspects—where object and subject, matter and motion, quality and quantity form inseparable correlating poles. It distinguishes the Logic of Feeling from the Logic of Signs and emphasizes that explanations combine analysis and synthesis reducible to felt relations or their rational equivalents, though metaphysical residues persist. Certitude is limited but usable, with the Principle of Equivalence as a central test of truth, and with invariants linking physical, chemical, and biological regularities. The Absolute is discussed as knowable only in relation to Feeling and Motion, not as a noumenal beyond experience. The text situates its critique within Kant, Hegel, Spencer, and others and previews a broader inquiry into Nature, sense, thought, and symbolic reconstruction.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371890128
• ISBN 13: 9780371890127
• Binding: Paperback