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Excerpt from Some Problems of Lotze's Theory of Knowledge
Otze's many-sidedness at once attracts the notice of the reader. He seems to represent in turn almost every system Of philosophy, and also to deny that a system Of knowl edge is possible. Many scholars know Lotze chiefly as a realist, and class his philosophy with the anti-idealism which is so com mon at the present time. From this point of view he is attacked by critics who regard him as the enemy of all true philosophy, and his realism as the antithesis of sound idealism.l On the other hand there are those who sympathize with Lotze, and agree that all knowledge is empirical but these critics are not satisfied because he does not renounce entirely the philosophical method.2 Others who identify his idealism with an abstract monism find in Lotze an explicit realism as the kernel of his system, and main tain that any attempt'to formtxlate his philosophy idealistically is wrong, and makes Lotze say just the Opposite of that which he intended to uphold. According to this interpretation, Lotze is not a monist (idealist), but a pluralist.3 A fourth class of thinkers find in Lotze the champion Of the heart against the head, and regard his philosophy as a resolute and by no means unsuccessful attempt' to show that truth is broader than intellect, and that human experience is as extensive as man's total being, and is not limited to the function of understanding or reason alone. Even Lotze's opponents recognize this concession to feeling and will as ele ments in the mind, but remark sarcastically that now theologians inay take new heart, for this theory trusts the heart against the head. 4 Again there are those who regard Lotze as an idealist - they claim that for him the world is a spiritual unity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
