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Philosophy in Germany
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
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Thepurpose of Wissenschaft und Weltanschaunng,1 by Aloys Wenzl, is to provide a rational explanation of the world which shall give us greater insight into its nature than either common sense or the natural sciences can give us. Philosophy, Professor Wenzl says in his introduction, springs from the desire for a weltanschaunng, for insight into the significance of life. But it also springs from a desire for rational explanation, and aims at objective validity. It proposes to give a truer, more complete, and more intelligible account of reality than appearances provide. This idea of a more intelligible explanation underlies the whole of Professor Wenzl's book. We want more than knowledge of empirical facts, we want knowledge of reasons (verstehen aus dem Grund), or, as he often puts it, insight (einsichtig verstehen). We want to see that though things seem to be contingent, they are really necessary.
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page 333 Note 1 Wissenschaft und Weltanschauung. Meiner, Felix. Leipzig, 1936. Pp. xi + 374.Google Scholar
page 334 Note 1 Umgang mit Dichtung, Meiner, Felix. Leipzig, 1936. Pp. 76.Google Scholar
page 335 Note 1 Contemporary Indian Philosophy. ByGandhi, M. K.,Tagore, Rabindranath,Abhedānanda, Swāmi,Bhattacharyya, K. C., Chatterji, G. C., Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., Das, Bhagavan, Dasgupta, Surendranath, Haldar, Hiralal, Hiriyanna, M., Radhakrishnan, S., Ranade, R. D., Iyer, V. Subrahmanya, Wadia, A. R.. Edited by Radhakrishnan, S. D.Litt., and Muirhead, J. H. LL.D., F.B.A., Professor Emeritus of the University of Birmingham. (London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1936. Pp. 375.Google Scholar Price 16s. Library of Philosophy, General Editor: Professor J. H. Muirhead.)
page 335 Note 2 Which in some respects it very likely is It may, e.g., well be doubted whether the conceptof the absolute can be carried further than has been done in the Neutral Absolutism reached (from the common Vedāntic Spiritual Absolutism) in the Upanisad mentioned at the end of this review.
page 335 Note 1 An awkward compound used, apparently, in the sense of “existence in correlation to a subject.” The author seems to have had in his mind some such Sanskrit compound as ātma-samstha “based on the self.”