A new theory of knowing and known : with some speculations on the border-land of psychology and physiology / by John Cunningham.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A new theory of knowing and known : with some speculations on the border-land of psychology and physiology / by John Cunningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTEE I. INTRODUCTORY. Nihilistic Tendency of Mental Philosophy—Difficulty of Believ- ing it—Necessity of Eeconstructing it—Foundation Prin- ciple of a New Doctrine of Mind, . . . Pp. 1-5 CHAPTER II. OLD THEORIES AND NEW. The Epicurean Images—The Peripatetic Sensible and Intel- ligible Species—The Cartesian Ideas—The Theories of Berkeley and Hume—The Kritik of Kant—The Subjective Idealism of Fichte—The Idea of Hegel—The Philosophies of Hamilton and Mill—Positivism—Eeid on the Destruc- tiveness of Ideas, ...... Pp. 6-10 CHAPTEE III. CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS OBJECT. Old Opinions as to the Mind's Object in Thought—Modern Identification of Sensations and Ideas with the Mind— Thought involves Consciousness — Of what are we Con- scious?—Is the Mind Conscious of its own Acts and Affections ?—This shown to be contrary to Consciousness, Self-Contradictory, and Impossible — It implies Double- Mindedness—Herbert Spencer—Brown's Statement of the Doctrine—Hamilton and Mill—Hamilton a Pure Idealist —The only Self-Consciousness possible, . . Pp. 11-33