The Monist, Vol. 2, 1891-1892 : A quarterly magazine by Various
"The Monist, Vol. 2, 1891-1892 : A quarterly magazine" by Various is a philosophical and scientific periodical written in the late 19th century. It gathers essays, debates, correspondence, and reviews that probe logic, monism, psychology, jurisprudence, religion, politics, and the relation between science and philosophy. Readers can expect rigorous arguments about how knowledge is formed, how law and society evolve, and how contemporary political forces shape public life. The opening of the
volume moves from a major study of logic to essays on ethics, law, and U.S. politics. The first essay argues that modern science’s success contrasts with a crisis of intellectual authority, criticizes formal and purely inductive logic, and defends a “transcendental” approach that treats thought as the evolving meaning of facts, urging a rapprochement between science and a critical logic akin to Hegel’s. Next comes a probing analysis of will and reason, rejecting the idea that reason is merely prohibitive or mere calculation, challenging hedonism and empty maxims, and proposing that “reasonable” action expresses a coherent scheme of life shaped by dominant, organizing ideas. A third piece outlines ethnological jurisprudence: extending legal study to all peoples (especially so‑called primitive societies), identifying cross‑cultural legal parallels (e.g., marriage by capture, blood‑vengeance, ordeals), and using them to reconstruct the early development of law and to ground a new, comparative philosophy of law. The section on American politics depicts parties, machines, and voting blocs, explains race and immigration dynamics, shows how capital, patronage, and bribery distort elections, and yet points to reforms like the Australian ballot and to the healthy tension between centralizing and decentralizing forces as signs of democratic resilience. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
The Monist, Vol. 2, 1891-1892 : A quarterly magazine
Original Publication
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co, 1891, copyright 1892.
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