Philosophical Studies

PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES BY DAVID G. RITCHIE, M. A., LL. D. SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS AUTHOR OF NATURAL RIGHTS, ETC. EDITED, WITH A MEMOIR, BY ROBERT LATTA, M. A., D. PHIL. PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW MACMILLAN AND CO, LIMITEB NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1905 All rights .. PREFACE IN 1902 Professor Ritchie reprinted, under the title Studies in Political and Social Ethics a number of essays in which he discussed ... Read More

PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES BY DAVID G. RITCHIE, M. A., LL. D. SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS AUTHOR OF NATURAL RIGHTS, ETC. EDITED, WITH A MEMOIR, BY ROBERT LATTA, M. A., D. PHIL. PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW MACMILLAN AND CO, LIMITEB NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1905 All rights .. PREFACE IN 1902 Professor Ritchie reprinted, under the title Studies in Political and Social Ethics a number of essays in which he discussed practical questions of political and social ethics on the basis of what may be called evolutionary utilitarianism, without raising, or at least without discussing, metaphysical questions. The present volume, on the other hand, consists of papers which are essentially philosophical, although they include incidentally many practical applications. Three of these papers are reprinted from the Philosophical Review and Mind while the remaining three have been selected and arranged by me from Professor Ritchies manuscripts. The Cogitatio Metaphysica is a general statement of his views p on all the main questions of philosophy and religion. He had several times begun this and made some progress with it, only to leave it aside and begin again, and at his death it remained incomplete. Sections i to 21 inclusive, part of section 22, sections 23, 25 and 26, part of section 27, sections 28 and 29 and part of section 30 form the completed portion of the last draft. Following indications in Professor Ritchies notes, I have completed section 22 from a review of Wards Naturalism and Agnosticum and I have also expanded some of the ther stations from various notes. The remainder from section 31onwards I have compiled from notes in a manuscript vi PREFACE volume, which contained a complete outline, with headings, of the Cogitatio. The main parts of the Confessio Fidel and the Moral Philosophy were included, under these titles, in manuscript volumes but I have freely rearranged these, divided them into sections, expanded them from other notes and occasion ally added connecting or explanatory sentences, which are indicated by square brackets. I have also revised the references throughout and added others. As Professor Ritchies published works are concerned mainly with ethics and politics, it seemed to me that this posthumous volume should represent, as adequately as is now possible, the philosophical position that underlies his practical doctrine. I have therefore devoted the greater part of the Memoir to a connected exposition of his views in philosophy, and my aim has been, by full quotations from the notebooks, letters and other manuscripts which Mrs. Ritchie has kindly entrusted to me, to express his ideas as far as possible in his own words. As he wrote on these high subjects in a fresh and untechnical style, I hope that many readers, who know only his political and ethical writings, may find these studies illuminating and suggestive. My thanks are due to the editors of the Philosophical Review for their kind permission to reprint the articles on the relation of logic to psychology and the relation of metaphysics to epistemology, to the editor of Mind for kindly allowing the republication of the article on the One and the Many, and to Mrs. Ritchie for much valuable help in the preparation of the Memoir and the Index. R. L. GLASGOW, Jpril, 1905. CONTENTS MEMOIR I.Biographical -------I II. Philosophical, - 1 8 COGITATIO METAPHYSICA What is Philosophy I 1-5, 66 Logic, 6-13, 70 Metaphysics, 14-21, 84 Psycho-Physical Parallelism, 22-23, 95 Morality, Society, etc., 24-26, - - - no Religion, Art, etc., 27-44, n 7 THE RELATION OF LOGIC TO PSYCHOLOGY, - 134 THE RELATION OF METAPHYSICS TO EPISTE MOLOGY, 17 THE ONE AND THE MANY, 192 I. The Logical Problem, 194 IL The Metaphysical Problem, 207 III. The Theological and Ethical Problem, - - Tl viii CONTENTS PAGE CONFESSIO FIDEI i. The Nature of God and the Problem of Scepticism, 230 2... Read Less