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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2011
Neo-Realism, we shall all agree, has come to stay. Though the most recent of philosophical movements, it has already made an abiding impression on contemporary thought. Less noisy than Pragmatism, less fashionable than Bergson's Intuitionism, it has yet quietly won over to its side a far larger number of the younger students of philosophy than one would suspect from the comparatively small amount of Neo-Realistic literature. What is even more striking, its criticisms of Idealism have had at least this effect, that many thinkers who are commonly labelled “Idealists” have hastened to dissociate themselves once more in the most explicit terms from that sort of Idealism of which the watchword is Berkeley's esse est percipi. The so-called “Objective Idealists” have become noticeably more objective. To have compelled this re-alignment is in itself no small achievement to the credit of Neo-Realism.
1 Cf. Büchner's Kraft und Stoff.
2 R. B. Perry, Present Philosophical Tendencies, p. 108.
3 R. B. Perry, Present Philosophical Tendencies, p. 331.
4 Ibid.
5 Loc. cit., p. 347.
6 Loc. cit., p. 344.
7 Present Philosophical Tendencies, p. 313.
8 Problems of Philosophy, pp. 66, 7.
9 The Basis of Realism, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VI, passim.
10 Cf. R. B. Perry, Present Philosophical Tendencies, Chaps. XII, XIII; E. B. Holt, Concept of Consciousness, Chap. IX.
11 Loc. cit., p. 315.
12 Loc. cit., pp. 20 ff.
13 A. H. Prichard, Kant's Theory of Knowledge, p. 119.
14 Cf. an article by the author on The Religious Aspect of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy, in the Harvard Theological Review, Vol. IX, April, 1916.
15 The Basis of Realism, p. 1.
16 Loc. cit., p. 107.
17 These phrases and sentences are quoted from R. B. Perry, Present Philosophical Tendencies, Chap. XIV, A Realistic Philosophy of Life.
18 S. Alexander, The Basis of Realism, p. 19.
19 The following account is based on certain passages of Chapter VIII, The Neutral Mosaic, in E. B. Holt's Concept of Consciousness.
20 Loc. cit., p. 160.
21 Ibid.
22 All quotations in this section, unless otherwise stated, are taken from R. B. Perry's Present Philosophical Tendencies, Chaps. I and II. A first draft of Chapter I appeared in the Harvard Theological Review, Vol. III (1910).
23 A Pluralistic Universe, pp. 20, 1.
24 The Moral Economy, Chap. VI, p. 231.
25 Present Philosophical Tendencies, pp. 4, 5.
26 Chap. VI, on “The Moral Justification of Religion,” originally printed in the Harvard Theological Review, Vol. II, April, 1909.
27 The Moral Economy, p. 254.
28 Loc. cit., p. 251.
29 Loc. cit., p. 249.
30 Present Philosophical Tendencies, p. 248.
31 Pragmatism, p. 297.
32 Talks to Teachers on Psychology and Life's Ideals, pp. 268 ff.—quoted and discussed by B. Bosanquet, The Value and Destiny of the Individual, pp. 332 ff.
