Excerpt from First Steps in Philosophy: Physical and Ethical
Philosophy, whatever else it may mean, involves the clarification of our fundamental conceptions. We naturally aspire to a complete view of the world, a theory of the universe. But we have first to clear up our minds as to certain elementary notions. We are using almost every day such terms, for instance, as matter and duty - what do we mean by them? Can the thoughts we chance to have about them stand the test of analysis and criticism? Are they clear and self-consistent? We cannot successfully build a house till we have tested the soundness and strength of our materials. As little can we construct a philosophical system, till we have tested the elementary ideas that are to enter into it and help constitute it. It is idle to try to develop a theistic, monistic, materialistic or any other theory of the universe, till we have searchingly asked ourselves these preliminary questions.
The present book conducts an examination into two fundamental conceptions - viz., Matter and Duty.
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