A BEGINNER’S HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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IMMANUEL KANT
(The Puttrich’sche Portrait of Kant was printed in the Kant-Studien in 1906 and is said by Professor Vaihinger to be one of the best likenesses of the Königsberg philosopher. The name of the artist was Puttrich, and the original painting goes back before 1798. It is interesting to note that this portrait of Kant was used by the sculptor, Rauch, as his model for the statue of Kant upon the memorial monument of Frederick the Great.)
A BEGINNER’S HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
BY
HERBERT ERNEST CUSHMAN, LL.D., Ph.D.
Sometime Professor of Philosophy in Tufts College
Lecturer of Philosophy in Harvard College
Lecturer of Philosophy in Dartmouth College
VOL. II
MODERN PHILOSOPHY
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY HERBERT ERNEST CUSHMAN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PREFACE
The pedagogical purpose of this history of philosophy is stated in the Preface to the first volume. It may be desirable in this place to restate what that purpose is.
This book is intended as a text-book for sketch-courses in the history of philosophy. It is written for the student rather than for the