Essay On Philosophical Method

Collingwood, R.G.

ISBN 10: 1855063921 / ISBN 13: 9781855063921

Published by St. Augustines Press, 1995

About this Item

This is a clean copy signed by the previous owner, but otherwise unmarked and undamaged. 1995 reprint of the original 1933 edition.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1764707104675

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essay On Philosophical Method
• Publisher: St. Augustines Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855063921
• ISBN 13: 9781855063921
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy-Theory

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Synopsis

"My best book in matter; in style, I may call it my only book." - R. G. Collingwood

Collingwood's mature work of metaphysics seeks to overhaul the notion of philosophical method, assigning philosophy the task of "thinking out the idea of an object that shall completely satisfy the demands of reason." He saw natural science and history falling short in their accounts of our knowledge and limited in their aims. Propositions in philosophy, he believes, must have the scope of both natural science and history, to be both universal and categorical. The Essay is particularly interesting as an embodiment of the idealistic metaphysics Collingwood abandoned in later life.

About the Author

The late R.G. Collingwood was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University. James Connelly is in the School of Human Sciences and Communication, Southampton Institute. Giuseppina D'Oro is in the Department of Philosophy, Keele University.