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...will be followed by an outline of Helmholtz's theory of the quality of musical notes and of recent opinion as to the nature of consonance and dissonance. The main structural characteristics of music will then be discussed psychologically, and a reference made in conclusion to the emotional and ideal elements which enter into musical effect...
...question arises, whether, after all, the whole foregoing analysis of Reality and Truth can defend itself against an ultinate skepicism, which should question how any conscious being can in any wise escape from his in her life as such, and know any truth, real or ideal beyond his private consciousness. The essentially Kantian answer is suggessel, that in fact no self really escapes or even means to escape from the world of its own true selfconsciousness, in the act of knowing truth; but that. never the less, the world of the Self is not the world of the private...
...greater American Universities lately spoke before his students on the subject of college government. If his remarks were correctly reported, it is clear that the methods of governing at his institution are not as far advanced as here. He sets forth the proposition that "the best ideal for the college is in the moral sense of the individual student," a principle which was discovered here long ago and which has been the basis of our government longer than any of the present undergraduates can remember. The report also says that the conscientious demands of the student body ought...
...philosophy is one of caprice among idealists. It has a basis in Kantism and makes a world of ideas, which is one of deep unreason. It is on the whole a rationalism with an ideal basis. It appears much as Hegel's, yet, whereas in Schopenhauer all is tragedy, in Hegel we have the traits of a logos which is above the world...
Particular illustrations of the tendencies of the Romantic School are found in Friedrich Schlegel. He was a romantic genius, wayward, but not deep. Novalis' was a tender and noble nature, yet fickle and without a truly ideal object. Schelling was also way ward in method and worked back from Fichte and Spinoza. His chaotic idealism won the condemnation of Fichte himself. Schelling was largely influenced by the idol of the Romantic School, Carolina, whose correspondence with him is of great assistance in our study of the time...