Sentence examples for elementary philosophy from inspiring English sources
What then is the "first principle" of the Elementary Philosophy?
There is no such thing as elementary philosophy.
(One must recall that Reinhold's work on Elementary Philosophy preceded Kant's third Critique).
Reinhold's subsequent reservations about his own Elementary Philosophy notwithstanding, the Elementary Philosophy remains one of the clearest examples of a thoroughgoing "foundationalist" project in the history of European philosophy.
In fact, however, Reinhold provided his readers with only the barest hints of how his Elementary Philosophy might embrace Kant's account of will and of practical reason.
In an effort to satisfy this need, he expounded his own "Elementary Philosophy" in a series of influential works between 1789 and 1791.
His achievements span mathematics (he set the basis for chaos theory), physics (his mathematical methods are still used in studying elementary particles), philosophy (his framework for exploring scientific theories is still controversial) and the psychology of creativity (he studied the workings of the unconscious).
(It is significant that Fichte's unpublished notebook of 1793/94, in which he first sketched what would subsequently be known as the Wissenschaftslehre or "Theory of Scientific Knowledge," was titled "Private Meditations on Elementary Philosophy/Practical Philosophy").
During the winter of 1793/94 he composed a long manuscript, "Private Mediations on Elementary Philosophy/Pracical Philosophy," in which worked out some of the fundamental features of his new system.
Although technology continued to develop (the horse collar, the stirrup, and the heavy plow came in), intellectual pursuits, including political philosophy, became elementary.
He has fallen into the habit of browsing through an imaginary course bulletin, which satirizes summer session courses in Economic Theory, History of European Civilization, Elementary Psychology etc. Example: Philosophy XXIX-B: Introduction to God.
