Our human truths / by the late F. C. S. Schiller.

Author/creator Schiller, F. C. S.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, 1939.
Descriptionx, 371 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Burning questions.--The humanistic view of life.--Must empiricism be limited?--Truth-seekers and sooth-sayers.--Must pragmatists disagree?--Humanisms and humanism.--Has philosophy any message for the world?--Must philosophy be dull?--Is idealism incurably ambiguous?--The ultra-Gothic Kant.--Goethe and the Faustian way of salvation.--Plato's Phaedo and the ancient hope of immortality.--Plato's Republic.--How far does science need determinism?--The relativity of metaphysics.--Ethics, casuistry, and life.--Prophecy and destiny.--The crumbling British empire.--Can democracy survive?--The possibility of a United States of Europe.--Ant-men or super-men?--Fascisms and dictatorships.--Humanist logic and theory of knowledge.--Multi-valued logics - and others.--Data, datives, and ablatives.--Are all men mortal?--How is "exactness" possible?
General noteForeword signed: Louise S. Schiller.
LCCN 40002056

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks B1649.S233 O8 1939 ✔ Available Place Hold