1st Edition

The Intelligible World Metaphysics and Value

By Urban, Wilbur Marshall Copyright 2003
    488 Pages
    by Routledge

    488 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. This is Volume XIV of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1929, this book is on metaphysics and value in the intelligible world, which states that there are only two kinds of philosophies: those that find the world ultimately meaningful and intelligible and those that do not. The present book claims to belong to the first of these, and as such to be apart, however modest, of the Great Tradition in philosophy.

    Part I Tradition and Modernism in Philosophy; Chapter I The Great Tradition and Modernism in Philosophy; Chapter II The Prejudices of the Philosopher: The Philosophical Hinterland; Chapter III “Genuine Knowledge” and “BonÂ-Fide Logic” Logic, Value, and Reality; Chapter IV Metaphysics and Value Theory; Part II The return to Perennial Philosophy; Chapter V The Return to Perennial Philosophy: the Conditions of Philosophic Intelligibility; Chapter VI The Form of Philosophical Intelligibility 1 I am indebted for this expression, as indeed for much of the impulse to write on this subject, to the valuable paper by Professor J. E. Creighton, under the same title, and published in the Philosophical Review for May 1923.; Chapter VII Space, Time, and Value: The Axiological Interpretation of Space and Time; Chapter VIII Origin and Value: Potentiality—Matter and Spirit; Chapter IX Intelligible Evolution; Chapter X Intelligible Finality and the Problem of Destiny; Chapter XI Intelligible Progress: The Form of History; Chapter XII The New Götterdämmerung: Degradation and Value; Chapter XIII Headlining the Universe: The System of Philosophy;

    Biography

    Wilbur Marshall Urban Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.