AND HUMANISM BY WILLYSTINE GOODSELL, PH.D. TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PUBLISHED BY Teachers College, Columbia University NEW YORK CITY 1910 PREFACE The author is deeply conscious of the incompleteness of this study in view of the vast range of the subject. But if it may serve to stimulate a few minds to intelligent consideration of a large and important problem in our present-day thought it will have fulfilled its purpose. My grateful acknowledgments are due to Professor John Dewey, whose vigorous thought has vivified and reshaped my entire philosophy of nature and of man. Likewise I gladly acknowledge my indebtedness to Professor John Angus MacVannel, whose instruction first stimulated my interest in the living problems of philosophy; and to Professor Paul Monroe whose ideals of careful scholarship I have attempted to follow in the preparation of this study. Columbia University, April 1st, 1910. W. G. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3. Vives and Telesio as heralds of a new order III. The development of naturalism due to Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. The revolutionizing of science by the dis- III. Bacon as the representative of the new scientific spirit. IV. The thought system of Descartes. Its influence... V. The world view of Leibniz.... VI. English philosophy as represented by Hobbes and Locke. Its psychological and moral trend. PAGE |