J. M. E. McTaggart | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of J. M. E. McTaggart.

J. M. E. McTaggart | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of J. M. E. McTaggart.
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SOURCE: A review of Philosophical Studies, in Mind, Vol. XLIV, No. 175, July, 1935, pp. 531-32.

In the following review, Broad praises the previously uncollected essays in the posthumously published Philosophical Studies.

Dr. Keeling has collected eleven papers of McTaggart's, which were either unpublished or scattered in back-numbers of Mind and other periodicals. He has prefaced them with an introduction and has provided them with notes referring the reader to relevant passages in McTaggart's published books.

The essays [in Philosophical Studies] cover a period of thirty years, from 1893, when McTaggart was twenty-seven years old, to 1923, two years before his death. As Dr. Keeling points out, there was no fundamental change during this period in McTaggart's views on the nature of metaphysics or in his metaphysical conclusions, but there was a profound change in his method of proof. Always a highly unorthodox Hegelian, he ended by proving conclusions which he thought...

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