A History of Philosophy - v. 2 Author:Friedrich Ueberweg Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECOND DIVISION OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY. PERIOD OF EMPIRICISM, DOGMATISM, AND SKEPTICISM AS RIVAL SYSTEMS. § 112. The Second Division in the history of Modern... more » Philosophy is characterized by the coexistence, in developed form and in relations of mutual antagonism, of Empiricism and Dogmatism, while Skepticism attains to a more independent development than in the transitional period. According to the doctrine of Empiricism, the only method of philosophical inquiry is experiment and the combination of facts ascertained by experiment, and philosophical knowledge is limited to the objects of experience. Dogmatism is the philosophy of those who believe themselves able in thought to transcend the limits of all experience, and to demonstrate philosophically the fundamental doctrines of theology, in particular the doctrines of God's existence and of the immortality of the human soul—and who have not, therefore, through critique of the faculty of cognition, been brought to deny the possibility of transcending in speculation the sphere of experience. The principle of Skepticism is universal doubt, or at least doubt with regard to the validity of all judgments respecting that which lies beyond the range of experience. It differs from the later Critical Philosophy in not recognizing, on the ground of a critique of the reason, the existence of a province inaccessible, indeed, to human reason, but whose existence is rendered sure on other grounds. On the philosophy of this period, cf.—besides the section relating thereto in the larger historical works cited above (pp. 1, 2), as also the Gent-h. dandi IS. Jahrltinulerts, by Schlosser, and other historical works —especially Ludw. Fcncrbach, desrji. lcr neueren Philosophic con Daco bis Spinoea, Ansbach, 1833, 2d cd., 18-14, together with his ...« less