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The Principles of Logic
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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: S. Sonnenschein & co., lim. in 1902 in 658 pages; Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Metaphysics; Reality; Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Metaphysics; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / History & Surveys / General; Philosophy / Metaphysics; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern; ... Read more

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Propaedeutic for materialist philosophers
Bradley had the misfortune to coincide in his later years with Russell and Whitehead, whose monumental work redirected Philosphy towards the realm of Mathematical Logic and Scientific Materialism. Yet, Bradley's revised version of Hegelian Idealism, strengthened by judiciously chosen elements from the British Idealist tradition, still stands as a practically inexpugnable bulwark against the inroads of those tempted by a spontaneous, unreflective materialism, namely, most of the scientific community today.
Also extremely well written, witty, sharp and captivating in parts. Well worth a perusal, especially the early chapters.

Great intellectual gymnastics
I completely disagree with his conception of reality, but I enjoyed this book.Bradley was a precursor to the language philosophers.Everyone seems intrigued with Wittgenstein; however, Bradley is far more comprehensive and profound.Plus, he writes very good English.Bradley distinguishes subtle naunces in meaning between words and in this way is a precursor to language philosophy.I also recommend C. S. Lewis's book, A Study in Words.

I'm amazed that all the books I have on language philosophy exclude F H Bradley.He did everything language philosophers did before they did it.

The apogee of British Idealism
This book, written in 1893, is one of the most important books in the history of English language philosophy.During his lifetime, Bradley was one of the best known of British philosophers, but before he died (in 1924) his metaphysical position dropped out of fashion, in part because it was attacked (and misrepresented) by Russell and Moore.In spite of their hostility, Twentieth Century analytic philosophers were profoundly influenced by Bradley. For an excellent discussion of this matter, read the first chapter of Tom Rockmore's book, Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy.I recommend reading _Appearance and Reality_before taking on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books).Bradley's argument for absolute idealism is the best written in English.His writing is lively, frequently pointed and sardonic, a "good read".This version, a reproduction of the 1893 edition, is sturdy, well bound, on good paper.It is a bargain and a must read for anyone with a serious interest in philosophy.

Nondualism
Something must have _happened_ to Francis Herbert Bradley.

He seems to have been something of a curmudgeon; at least, he was extremely reclusive and had a reputation for shooting cats. But at some point in his life he must have come to some sort of deep mystical realization.

Otherwise he couldn't have written this book, which reads like a Western version of Shankara. This is philosophy in the grand old style, and it's one of the high points of British idealism.

Bradley's argument doesn't always hold up in its precise details. He doesn't, for example, think that "relations" are real because (he says) they lead to an infinite regress. But Royce replied to this pretty adequately in an appendix to _The World and the Individual_. He also states firmly (and I think correctly) that there's no conceiving reality apart from experience and there's no duality in experience between subject and object. But support for this claim isn't exactly forthcoming. (Timothy L.S. Sprigge does a much better job with it in _The Vindication of Absolute Idealism_.)

But the essential structure of his argument is sound and could be carried through again with a different set of examples (the standard logical paradoxes, say): the world of our ordinary experience turns out upon inspection to be contradictory, so it can't be fully and finally real; what _is_ fully and finally real is a nondual Absolute in which all those apparent contradictions are resolved through that very nonduality.

Well, Bradley puts it better than that, of course, and his prose style is very pleasant to read. This work is also excerpted in James W. Allard and Guy Stock's collection of Bradley's _Writings on Logic and Metaphysics_, so if you want to read a shorter version, check that volume out.

Anyway, the point is, don't ever let anybody tell you there isn't any nondualistic wisdom here in the West. In a different time and place, Bradley would have been revered as a guru -- a prospect that in all likelihood would have made him cringe, so it's probably just as well. But he's clearly trying to articulate a vision here, and few writers have tackled "rational mysticism" with such philosophical flair.

I doubt that Shankara would have shot cats. Fortunately the similarities run deeper than that.

A startling answer to the frustrations of analytic puzzles
This book is indeed extremely important for analytic, continental, and mystic philosophers alike. Bradley's positive view, the Absolute, is proposed here as the _only way out_ of those messy analytic debatesregarding topics such as appearance vs. reality, plurality, quality, andcausation. Bradley's starting point: what is absurd (logically impossible)cannot exist. ... Read more

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Bradley's polemic against utilitarianism
When Francis Herbert Bradley published this work in 1876, utilitarianism was riding high in British ethical philosophy. As he notes in his preface, Bradley was not trying to develop a complete system of moral philosophy oreven to determine what is the proper subject matter of that field. Hispurpose was critical, and his target was utilitarianism.

However, hiswork is probably more positive than he gave it credit for. While it isundoubtedly not a full moral philosophy, he at least sketches the outlinesof an ethic of self-fulfillment that does not collapse into eitheramorality or tautology.

Utilitarianism has moved on since Bradley's timeand its arguments and doctrines have not stood altogether still. ButBradley's critiques of hedonism and its inability to provide a rule of lifeare still trenchant; his dissection of "duty for duty's sake"should still have the power to make Kantians squirm a bit; and his essay on"My Station and Its Duties" is surely a classic of British moralphilosophy.

The meat of Bradley's own positive case, though, is presentedin the final two chapters, on "Ideal Morality" and"Selfishness and Self-Sacrifice." It would be a mistake to regard"My Station and Its Duties" as Bradley's final word on ethics,for he did not thus regard it himself. On the contrary, in his closingchapters he sketches a view of the moral life as a life in which one's"good self" is fulfilled by overcoming one's "bad self"-- the former answering to our "true being" and the latterincapable of being desired for its own sake. And this "good self"is not simply or fully exhausted in our practical obligations.

Bradleydid not allow the book to be republished for many years after it had goneout of print, but in later life he did begin to make notes toward areissue. This reissue was published in 1927, some three years afterBradley's death, with the help of H.H. Joachim; this edition, which is theone here made available, incorporates Bradley's rough notes as bracketedadditions. ... Read more

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Publisher: KingPublication date: 1877Subjects: HedonismFiction / ClassicsLiterary Collections / GeneralLiterary Collections / American / GeneralLiterary Collections / EssaysLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPhilosophy / Ethics ... Read more

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This book collects new studies of the work of F. H. Bradley, a leading British philosopher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and one of the key figures in the emergence of Anglo-American analytic philosophy.Well-known contributors from Britain, North America, and Australia focus on Bradley's views on truth, knowledge, and reality.These essays contribute to the current re-evaluation of Bradley, showing that his work not only was crucial to the development of twentieth-century philosophy, but illuminates contemporary debates in metaphysics, logic, and epistemology. ... Read more