Handbook of the history of philosophy / by Albert Schwegler; translated and annotated by James Hutchison Stirling.

  • Schwegler, Albert, 1819-1857.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Handbook of the history of philosophy / by Albert Schwegler; translated and annotated by James Hutchison Stirling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ADVANTAGE has been taken of the present oppor- tunity for the introduction into the body of the ■work of a considerable number of corrections which were found necessary. Some of these it has been planned to signalize here, and one or two others may be at the same time referred to. The phrase ' Gothic dome,' page 154, has been objected to, as itself Gothic, seeing that, in English, dome means cupola, and there is no such thing in Gothic archi- tecture. My reply is simple : In using the phrase, the translator had really not a cupola but a cathedral-interior in his eye, and he sees no reason against extending the English dome into the German Bom, domus, to say nothing of 8S>fia, being, presumably, the warrant in the one case as in the other. At page 218, line 18 from top, the two words notions and without will be found hitherto to have accidentally exchanged places. The occurrence and its rectification are very simple matters ; still the former made such con- fusion of the sense that it went far to lead one of our most distinguished metaphysicians almost up to an accu- sation of misunderstanding, on the part of the translator, of one of Kant's most common and salient dicta. The Greek phrase translated at page 362 by 'the more is tlie thought; perhaps scarcely bears the addition of the article ['the') to the noun «thought; v6Wa in the original