The Problem of Reality
The Problem of Reality

Author: Ernest Belfort 1854-1926 Bax

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781014361684

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The Problem of Reality
The Problem of Reality

Author: E. Bax

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-05-03

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781512019872

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Mr. Belfort Bax, in The Problem of Reality, "is fully conscious that he has undertaken an unpopular task in attempting to deal with "metaphysic." "It would be useless to be deterred from this by any fear lest the ordinary Philistine should, at the mere use of the word, be thrown into convulsions. Of course, its bare mention will cause him to froth at the mouth with inept commonplaces as to the impossibility of any science other than that of 'phenomena.'" This, from the introduction, will prepare the reader for what he may expect, and he will not be disappointed. Mr. Bax, we infer, is a Socialist, and his socialism has penetrated to his philosophy. He asks: "May not the true significance of ethics, of duty, of the 'ought' of conscience, the conviction that the telos of the individual lies outside himself as such, consist in the fact that he is already tending towards absorption in a consciousness which is his own indeed, but yet not his own; that this limited self-consciousness of the animal body, with the narrow range of its memory-syntheses, is simply subservient and contributory to a completer, more determined self-consciousness of the social body as yet inchoate in time?" Of course, anything "may be," but we doubt if any one beside Mr. Bax can conceive the possibility of such an absorption of the individual consciousness in the general. Mr. Bax introduces in his general view of things the presence of the "a-logical" with some effect-the importance of feeling as preceding thought, and a chance element which vitiates any rigid application of the theory of causation. -The Westminster Review, Volume 139 [1893]

Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism
Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism

Author: Seamus Flaherty

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-05-20

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 3030423395

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This book is a reception study of Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’ ideas in Britain during the late nineteenth century and a revisionist account of the emergence of modern British socialism. It reconstructs how H. M. Hyndman, E. B. Bax, and William Morris interacted with Marx and ‘Marxism’. It shows how Hyndman was a socialist of liberal and republican provenance, rather than the Tory radical he is typically held to be; how Bax was a sophisticated thinker and highly influential figure in European socialist circles, rather than a negligible pedant; and it shows how Morris’s debt to Bax and liberalism has not been given its due. It demonstrates how John Stuart Mill, in particular, was combined with Marx in Britain; it illuminates other liberal influences which help to explain the sectarian attitude adopted by the Social Democratic Federation towards organised labour; and it establishes an alternative genealogy for Fabian socialism.

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers

Author: Stuart Brown

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 1246

ISBN-13: 1441192417

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This is a two-volume work with entries on individuals who made some contribution to philosophy in the period 1900 to 1960 or soon after. The entries deal with the whole philosophical work of an individual or, in the case of philosophers still living, their whole work to date. Typically the individuals included have been born by 1935 and by now have made their main contributions. Contributions to the subject typically take the form of books or journal articles, but influential teachers and people otherwise important in the world of philosophy may also be included. The dictionary includes amateurs as well as professional philosophers and, where appropriate, thinkers whose main discipline was outside philosophy. There are special problems about the term "British" in the twentieth century, partly because of human migration, partly because of decolonialization and the changing denotation of the term. The intention has been to include not only those who were British subjects at least for a significant part of their lives (even if they mostly lived outside what is now the U.K.) but also people who spent a significant part of their lives in Britain itself, irrespective of their nationality or country of origin. In the first category are included, for instance, a number of people who were born and educated in Britain but who subsequently taught in universities abroad. In the second category are included those who were born elsewhere but who came to Britain and contributed to its philosophical culture.