Abstract
IN his recently published Gifford Lectures, Prof. Pringle-Pattison, starting from Hume's “Dialogues concerning Natural Religion,” passes in review the reasoning of successive philosophical writers up to the present time on the nature of ultimate reality. His personal point of view is that of the idealism so strongly represented in recent British philosophy, including his own former works; but in the course of very acute and yet thoroughly sympathetic criticisms of other writers, and particularly his fellow-idealists, he has now carried philosophical idealism a considerable step forward, and brought it into more living touch with natural science and other developments of human thought and action. A clear and very graceful literary style adds largely to the value of what is unmistakably a great philosophical book.
The Idea of God in the Light of Recent Philosophy.
The Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in the Years 1912 and 1913. By Prof. A. Seth Pringle-Pattison. Pp. xvi + 423. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1917.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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H., J. The Idea of God in the Light of Recent Philosophy. Nature 100, 462–463 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100462a0
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