description: Together with Foundational Problems in Philosophy and The Principles of Politics, this volume is one of three recent volumes edited by Sweet (philosophy, St. Francis Xavier U., Canada) and Harris (emeritus, philosophy, Northwester U., US) reproducing the works of British/South African philosopher Arthur Ritchie Lord (1880- 1941). This work reproduces Lord's lectures for the second and third courses in logic at South Africa's Rhodes University College. The second course, dating from the early 1920s, follows a syllabus common to that era's South African universities in its treatment of philosophical developments from René Descartes to Immanuel Kant, while the third, dating from the late 1930s, contains Lord's discussion of G.F.W. Hegel. The focus of the lectures is less on logic, in the present-day formal sense, than on the development of epistemology or theories of the nature of knowledge. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: The History of Philosophy from Descartes to Hegel
titlecomplete: The History of Philosophy from Descartes to Hegel
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr