History of Philosophy

History of Philosophy

Originally published in 1903, this kindle edition is fully edited with linked footnotes and an Index with over 1400 linked entries.

William Turner was born at Kilmallock, Ireland. He received his education at Mungret College in Limerick, at the Royal University of Ireland, and at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1893. The following year he began his career as a professor at St. Paul's Seminary, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He later became professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America. In 1919, Turner was appointed the sixth Bishop of Buffalo, New York, by Pope Benedict XV. He received his episcopal consecration on the following year from Cardinal James Gibbons, with Bishops Denis J. O'Connell and Michael Joseph Curley serving as co-consecrators. He began Catholic Charities in 1924, and established more than 30 new parishes during his administration. He died at age 65.

At the time the book was originally published, it supplied a long-felt want in Catholic colleges and seminaries. It was considered a solid and carefully condensed volume, written in an attractive style, and not tainted throughout with the special views of the author, or as having failed to do justice to some particular epoch. Father Turner, in the preface to this work, tells why: "Of the text-books that are at present available for use in the lecture-room, some dismiss the scholastic period with a paragraph ; others, while dealing with it more sympathetically, treat it from the point of view of German transcendentalism."

In setting forth the succession of schools and systems of philosophy, Father Turner has given to Scholasticism a presentation adequate to its importance in the history of speculative thought. To the much-neglected period of Scholasticism, Father Turner devotes nearly one-third of his volume. He presents to the reader a galaxy of Schoolmen whose thought and genius deserve to be perpetuated. Modern Philosophy, which is generally said to take its rise about the middle of the fifteenth century, is brought down to the end of the nineteenth century.

Father Turner's "History of Philosophy " was and still is an excellent work, and is worthy of the high praise it received at the time. Throughout the work, care is taken to indicate the sources which may be conveniently consulted by students, and at the end of each section critical suggestions are offered to enable the reader to form a judgment as to the value of each successive contribution to philosophical thought.
Country USA
Manufacturer Lex De Leon Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-05-18
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Lex De Leon Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-05-18
Format	Kindle eBook

History of Philosophy

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