Philosophical Studies

Excerpt from Philosophical Studies 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 Ritchie's manuscripts. The Cogitatio Metaphysica is a general statement of his views on all the main questions of philosophy and religion. He had several times bun 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 Ritchie's notes, I have completed section 22 from a review of Ward's Naturalism and Agnosticism, and I have also expanded some of the other sections from various notes. 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.