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This chapter is Mary Whiton Calkins’ discussion of, and support for, the identification of philosophy with speculative metaphysics.
Mary Whiton Calkins: First published in 1907 as the first chapter of M. W.Calkins’ The Persistent Problems of Philosophy, Macmillan Publishers. This version is taken from the 1912 edition.
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R.B. Haldane “The Pathway to Reality,” I., p. 19. Cf. also Hegel, “Encyclopedia,” I., “Logic,” Chapters 1, 2, 6, for discussion of the nature of philosophy; and cf. infra, Chapter II, pp. 369 seq. for consideration of Hegel’s view that no irreducible reality can be limited, and that consequently the object of philosophy is, of necessity, the all-of-reality.
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Cf. Appendix, pp. 518 seq., and Chapter II, pp. 398 seq.
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F. C. S. Schiller, “Humanism,” p. 197.
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Calkins, M.W., Edited by., Katzav, J., Vaesen, K. (2023). The Nature, Types, and Value of Philosophy. In: Katzav, J., Vaesen, K., Rogers, D. (eds) Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_3
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