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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society. In its earliest days, it was a private venture of the Royal Society's secretary. It was established in 1665, making it the second journal in the world exclusively devoted to science, after the Journal des sçavans, and therefore also the world's longest-running scientific journal. It became an official society publication in 1752. The use of the word philosophical in the title refers to natural philosophy, which was the equivalent of what would now be generally called science.
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Isolated from such ends, it is matter of indifference whether its disclosures are used to cure disease or to spread it; to increase the means of sustenance of life or to manufacture war material to wipe life out. If society is interested in one of these things rather than another, science shows the way of attainment. Philosophy thus has a double task: that of criticizing existing aims with respect to the existing…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is.
The English call physical instruments, such as the barometer and thermometer, philosophical instruments. Theories too, and especially morality and the moral sciences, which are derived from the feelings of the human heart or from experience, are called Philosophy, and finally this is also so with the theories and principles of Political Economy. And thus at least in England, is the name of Philosophy respected. Some…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is.
The question advanced by the Royal Society, together with the considerations leading up to it, is as follows:-- _Quum primitiva,', moralitatis idea, sive de summa lege morali principalis notio, sua quadam 'propria eaque minime logica necessitate, turn in ea disciplina appareat, cui propositum est cognitionem_ τοῡ ἠθικοῡ _explicare, turn in vita, partim in conscientiae judicio de nostris actionibus, partim in censura…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
Close in meaning to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; the term itself is not named.
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