Balfour Philosophical Lectures, HEGELIANISM AND PERSONALITY BY ANDREW SETH, M.A. PROFESSOR OF LOGIC, RHETORIC, AND METAPHYSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS SECOND SERIES OF BALFOUR LECTURES WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXVII 012-5-30 J. A, PREFATORY NOTE. THE following Lectures, forming the second series of Balfour Philosophical Lectures, were delivered in the University of Edinburgh at the close of last winter session. They take up the questions which were suggested by the concluding lecture of the previous course on Scottish Philosophy; but they will be found to depend for intelligibility on nothing beyond themselves. In preparing for publication, I have adhered to the lecture form; but in what now stands as the third and fourth lectures, I have found it desirable to alter the arrangement of topics which was adopted in delivery. I have also endeavoured, by occasional changes and additions, and by the help of Appendices and fuller references, to bring b into relief the chief points on which my criticism turns, and at the same time, by more careful definition, to avoid the possibility of misconception. ST ANDREWS, October 1887. CONTENTS. Relation of these Lectures to the previous course on Scotch Philosophy-English Neo-Kantianism or Neo- Hegelianism-Green's Spiritual Principle-Source of the conception in German philosophy-Sketch of the following Lectures-Results of the Kantian philosophy -Refutation of the sensational atomism of Hume- Time, space, and the categories-The Self or Subject -The terms synthetic and transcendental as applied to the Ego-The transcendental and the empirical Self -The transcendental method-Kant unfaithful to his own principles-Legitimate outcome of the transcen- dental method-Mr Shadworth Hodgson's statement of the position-Neo-Kantianism transforms Kant's theory of knowledge into a metaphysic of existence- Green's account of the Spiritual Principle-It repre- sents merely the formal unity of the universe-Kant's insistence on the abstract character of his inquiry- Neo-Kantianism illegitimately converts "consciousness in general "into" a universal consciousness"-Ferrier's more cautious argument-Negative or critical attitude of the theory of knowledge-Kant's own position, |