Pessimism : a history and a criticism /

"In bringing out a new edition of my volume on Pessimism, I do not feel called upon to make more than one or two unimportant corrections. These consist in reducing the number of apparently independent writers on the subject. It has transpired that the author of the criticism of Hartmann's...

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Main Author: Sully, James, 1842-1923
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N. Y. : D. Appleton and Company, 1891.
Edition:2nd ed. with new preface.
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520 |a "In bringing out a new edition of my volume on Pessimism, I do not feel called upon to make more than one or two unimportant corrections. These consist in reducing the number of apparently independent writers on the subject. It has transpired that the author of the criticism of Hartmann's biological doctrine, referred to in the foot-note to page 204 of this volume, is no other than the versatile high-priest of the Unconscious himself, and that the Herr Taubert spoken of on pages 108 and 109 is in reality Hartmann's first wife. Perhaps an apology is due to Herr von Hartmann from one who, after making a somewhat careful study of his literary style, failed to recognise it in an anonymous work. For the rest, I may confine myself in this Preface to a brief review of the further developments of thought about life and its value since this work appeared nearly fourteen years ago. To begin with, then, the pessimistic movement in German literature has by no means spent itself. Hartmann himself, with a prodigality of vital force which suggests the rapture of the gods rather than the despair of mortals, has carried forward the exposition of his philosophical system to what looks like a point of exhaustive completeness. In 1879 he published an elaborate work on 'The Phenomenology of the Moral Consciousness,' in which, after a lengthy examination of the principles lying at the root of the historical systems of ethics, he sought to show how they lead up to and find their reconciliation in his own doctrine of duty, as an obligation to consciously aid in the world-process by which the absolute is to be redeemed from its unblessedness. In the following year he brought out a 'Contribution to the History and the Foundation of Pessimism,' in which he is specially concerned to detect the germ of his own eudæmonistic pessimism in the writings of Kant. In two important works published in 1882 he did for the religious consciousness what less than three years before he had done for the moral consciousness, tracing the several phases of its historical evolution, and seeking to show how its aspirations meet and attain a common fulfilment in his own doctrine of a final deliverance for the individual and for the world as a whole"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). 
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