Mathematical philosophy, a study of fate and freedom; lectures for educated laymen, by Cassius J. Keyser.

MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY LECTURE i Introduction INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND LOGICAL FATE-MATHEMATICAL OBLIGATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION-COMMON HUMANITY AND INDIVIDUALITY -HUMANISTIC AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION-MAN NOT AN ANIMAL-ETHICS NOT A BRANCH OF ZOOLOGY —EXCELLENCE AND THE MUSES-LOGIC THE MUSE OF THOUGHT-THE HEROIC TRADITION IN PHILOSOPHY-RADIANT ASPECTS OF AN OVER-WORLD IT is the aim of the following lectures to point out, in a manner suitable for you as students of Thought, and to submit for your consideration, some of the more essential and more significant relations between Mathematics and Philosophy. Each of these great terms is to be understood in its most embracing sense. Mathematicians sometimes speak contemptuously of philosophy; and philosophers sometimes speak contemptuously of mathematics. The contempt thus manifested does not spring from mathematics in the former case, nor from philosophy in the latter; in both cases it springs out of ignorance-philosophical ignorance of mathematicians

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Mathematical philosophy, a study of fate and freedom; lectures for educated laymen, by Cassius J. Keyser.
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Keyser, Cassius Jackson, 1862-1947.
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New York,: E. P. Dutton & company,
[1925]
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Mathematics -- Philosophy

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