The Veil of Isis: A Series of Essays on Idealism (Dublin University Press Series)

xiii, 365, 2, [2], 24 pp. 8vo. "... arguably one of the best contributions to the history of modern philosophy published in the nineteenth century. In a series of substantial essays Webb gives a thorough and sympathetic, though finally critical, account of six idealist system, including not only the systems of Berkeley, Kant, and Hegel, but also the 'problematical' idealism of David Hume and the 'cosmotheitical' idealism of … Thomas Reid." — Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers. A collection of essays on idealism, including: Theistic Idealism: or Berkeley; Problematic Idealis: or Hume; Cosmothetical Idealism: or Reid; Transcendental Idealism: or Kant; Cataleptic Idealism: or Hamilton; Absolute Idealism: or Hegel; An Ideal of System: or The New Kritik. Also includes appendices: Locke - On the Origin of Ideas; Hobbes - On General Reasoning; Bacon - On Inductive Reasoning; Hume - On Miracle and Nature