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Theoretical philosophy

Theoretical philosophy
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  1. All technically practical rules (_i.e._ the rules of art and skill generally, or of prudence regarded as skill in exercising an influence over men and their wills), so far as their principles rest on concepts, must be reckoned only as corollaries to theoretical Philosophy. For they concern only the possibility of things according to natural concepts, to which belong not only the means which are to be met with in…

    Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement

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  2. Methodology of Pure Practical Reason. By the methodology of pure practical reason we are not to understand the mode of proceeding with pure practical principles (whether in study or in exposition), with a view to a scientific knowledge of them, which alone is what is properly called method elsewhere in theoretical philosophy (for popular knowledge requires a manner, science a method, i.e., a process according to…

    Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason

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  3. P. 66, § 32. On the relation of dogmatism and scepticism see the introduction to Kant's _Criticism of Pure Reason,_ and compare Caird's _Critical Philosophy of I. Kant,_ vol. i. chap. i. P. 67, § 33. The subdivision of 'theoretical' philosophy or metaphysics into the four branches, Ontology, Cosmology, Psychology (rational and empirical), and Natural Theology, is more or less common to the whole Wolfian School…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel

    Close in meaning to Theoretical philosophy; the term itself is not named.

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Part of German philosophy.

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