Abstract

The history of philosophy belng a progressive synthesis of interpenetrating doctrines, all divisions into periods are of a large arbitrary character. If recent philosphers are taken to be all those from the English Idealistic school onwards, this arbitrariness can be supported by many obvious considerations which sill appear throughout the following pages. The new systems which were presented during that time, are best regarded as attempts to modify neo-Kantianism by viewing mind in a more concrete and specific manner. The positions credited by these men to mind vary from its being unconditionally constitutive of all reality to its merely resulting from a set of neutral particulars organized in a peculiar way.[...]