Riddles of the Sphinx: a Study in the Philosophy of Evolution

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Riddles of the Sphinx: a Study in the Philosophy of Evolution
F C S Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
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How can this be ? Simply by basing our meta- physics on our science. Our metaphysics must be concrete, and not abstract ; they must be the inquiry into the ultimate nature of concrete realities, and not of thought abstractions. In other words, they must proceed from the phenomenally real to the ultimately real, from science to metaphysics. And so the method of philosophy must utilize the results of science ; metaphysical theories must be suggested by scientific researches, and must approve them
...selves by in their turn suggesting scientific advances. Their principles of explanation must be systematic- ally based on the sciences, and not picked up at random, and their function must be to systematize the fundamental principles of the various sciences. Metaphysic, in short, must again become what it once was in the time of Aristotle the science of ultimate existence, the science of the first principles of the physical sciences.
10. But is such a method more than the vision of an imagination which has soared too far above the region of the actual ?


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