This quantity includes choices from the philosophical writings of James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864). Ferrier was once the Professor of ethical Philosophy on the college of St Andrews among 1845 and 1864 and he used to be one of many earliest post-Hegelian British idealists. He develops a process of absolute idealism through a rejection of the Scottish university of logic and Enlightenment philosophy more often than not. those choices specialise in his basic philosophical pursuits: epistemology and ontology. Ferrier denies the potential of a technology of guy and means that philosophy may still concentrate on self-consciousness, the defining function of humanity. Jennifer Keefe is assistant professor of philosophy on the collage of Wisconsin-Parkside.
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