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Philosophy as Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

In studying the problems of philosophy, it is commonly considered an advantage to approach them through the history of philosophy, But to be compelled to spread one's sails, and take one's solitary course, “as if no Plato or Kant had ever existed,” has perhaps its advantages too.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1939

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page 192 note 1 This article is the substance of an address on Professor Levy's A Philosophy for a Modern Man, given at the Left Book Club summer school, 1938, under the title: Some Reflections on Professor Levy's View of the Social Situation.

page 193 note 1 A Philosophy for a Modern Man, p. 10.

page 194 note 1 A Philosophy for a Modem Man, pp. 98 ff.

page 195 note 1 A Philosophy for a Modern Man, p. 111.

page 195 note 2 See e.g. Ibid., pp. 53 ff.

page 195 note 3 Ibid., pp. 112–13.

page 196 note 1 A Philosophy for a Modern Man, pp. 125–27.

page 196 note 1 Ibid., pp. 190 ff

page 196 note 3 Ibid., p. 194.

page 197 note 1 Cf. e.g. pp. 96 ff., 154 ff.

page 200 note 1 See A Philosophy for a Modern Man, pp. 248 ff.

page 200 note 2 Ibid., chap. v.