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THIS volume is one of the well-known series “Bibliothèque de Philosophie contemporaine,” and the author is professor of sociology at the School of Anthropology of Paris. There has been a great mass of literature that is inspired by a form of patriotism, published in France and over here, on the defects of German character and the incompetence of the Germans in science, so that it is a relief to have the author's assurance (p.) that this is not the case with his book. His object is to estimate scientifically the value of German thought as shown in its principal philosophical, systems and in its most evident general tendencies. The, methods used are two: one is to regard a philosophy as, an effect of psycho-social causes, and the other is to regard it as a cause. It is impossible not to feel that regarding Kant or Hegel or Nietzsche as a cause of the ideals of the State current in Germany is somewhat of the nature of wisdomif it is wisdomafter the event. In this book it is Kant who comes in for blame.
Science FrançaiseScolastique Allemande.
Par Prof. G. Papillault. Pp. iv + 154 (Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1917.) Price 2.50 fr.
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Science Francaise—Scolastique Allemande . Nature 99, 225 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099225a0
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