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The growth of the class struggle has been the occasion for much criticism of the democratic system. In his work, Feibleman examines the fundamental issues concerned and sets forth a program for positive democracy that is founded on the right relation between properties and citizens, guaranteeing civil liberties and economic liberty with the advancement of the welfare of society and individuals as the goal.Originally published in 1940.A UNC Pre...

Excerpt from Aesthetics: A Study of the Fine Arts in Theory and PracticeThis work, then, is the result of the application to aes thetic theory and artistic practice of two realistically meta physical postulates: one, that there is a value in the world corresponding to what we experience as the feeling of the beautiful, responsible for the arousal of that feeling but at the same time ontologically independent of all such effects or interactions...

Aggression: The Muscle and Alterable Objects.- Perception and Epistemology.- The Pernicious Distinction Between Logic and Psychology.- Anaxagoras¿ Theory of Mind.- Renaissance Space and the Humean Development in Philosophical Psychology.- The Rational Psychology of Laurens Hickok.- The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard.

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No statement, except one, can be made with which all philosophers would agree. The exception is this statement itself. The disagreement has the advantage that it gets all the proposals out into the open where they can be examined, but it has the dis advantage that the cogency of any one philosophy must rely entirely upon that wide public which is unprepared to deal with it. Fortunately, ethics has a more immediate appeal than some other branch...

The acquisition of knowledge is not a single unrelated occasion but rather an adaptive process in which past acquisitions modify present and future ones. In Part I of this essay in epistemology it is argued that coping with knowledge is not a passive affair but dynamic and active, involving its continuance into the stages of assimilation and deployment. In Part II a number of specific issues are raised and discussed in order to explore the dim...

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Excerpt from Aesthetics: A Study of the Fine Arts in Theory and Practice Here is a volume of essays on aesthetics and the fine arts. It has been written from a viewpoint which is very old and at the same time very new. According to that philosophy by which Europe and America have lived during recent centuries, a nominalistic philosophy colored by Locke's distinction between primary physical "qualities" of relation and secondary sensational qu...

The year 1959 has been called The Centennial Year in view of the anniversary of the publication of The Origin of SPecies and the centenary of the births of many who later contributed much to the philosophy of the recent past, such as Samuel Alexander, Henri Bergson, John Dewey and Edmund Husser!' The essays in the present volume which are on subjects germane to any of the anniversaries celebrated this year have been placed first in the present...