Mill, John Stuart. An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in his Writings. London: Longmans, Green, Reder, and Dyer, 1878. Fifth Edition. [11540]
Faded maroon cloth, scuff mark on spine from removed label, joints good, 9 x 6 inches. Seminary library bookplate, a couple of small number stamps; never had a card pocket or lending slip. xvi., 650 generally clean pp., very infrequent pencil marks, publisher's catalogue. About half of the book remains unopened. Good. Hardcover.
Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), Scottish metaphysician and educator. He a teacher at the University of Edinburgh, he was elected to the chair of logic and metaphysics in 1836. He worked to combine the Scottish philosophy of common sense with the views held by Immanuel Kant, and is credited with introducing the views of Kant to the British public.
"John Stuart Mill (1806–73) was the most influential English language philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was a naturalist, a utilitarian, and a liberal, whose work explores the consequences of a thoroughgoing empiricist outlook. In doing so, he sought to combine the best of eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinking with newly emerging currents of nineteenth-century Romantic and historical philosophy." - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
