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Henry Mansel was born on October 6, 1820, at Cosgrove, Northamptonshire.
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PEEFACE. The present volume differs only in a few verbal corrections from the article '' Metaphysics," as originally published in the last edition of the Encyclopcedia Britannica. In estimating its character, with reference both to what it omits and to what it attempts to perform, it will be necessary to bear in mind that it is but a reprint of an article written under specified conditions, as a portion of a larger work, and not as an independent treatise. The plan of the article, embracing Metaphysics in the most comprehensive sense, together with the limited space allotted to its execution, rendered it necessary to attempt a general outline of a wide and in some degree ambiguous subject, which, in some respects, might perhaps have been more satisfactorily discussed by means.of separate treatises on its subordinate parts. Some matters have thus been entirely omitted, and others very cursorily touched upon, which, under other circumstances, might have had a claim to insertion or fuller treatment. Thus, with the exception of some very slight notices of the modern German philosophy, no attempt has been made to furnish any historical account of the progress and various phases of metaphysical speculation; a task which, as far as the Encyclopaedia was concerned, had in a great measure been already performed in Stewart's Preliminary Dissertation ; and which, besides, could not have been added to the present treatise without exceeding the reasonable limits of an article. And in what has actually been attempted, many important questions, especially in the latter part of the work, have been indicated rather than discussed : some hints have been given to stimulate and direct further inquiry; but little has been done to satisfy it. Some of these deficiencies it would probably be out of my power to remedy; others, which I would gladly have attempted to supply, had I had leisure and opportunity for a complete revision, must at any rate be left as they are for the present. Nevertheless, though fully conscious of the imperfections of the work, I venture to hope that it may be of some service in giving English readers a clearer apprehension of a subject which, in this country, has been much neglected and misunderstood, and which, into whatever errors and extravagances it may at times have fallen, yet has its foundation in some of the deepest needs of human nature, and its superstructure in some of the noblest monuments of human thought. -- INTRODUCTION AMONG the various changes which the language of philosophy has undergone in the gradual progress of human knowledge, there is none more remarkable than the different significations which, in ancient and modem times, have been assigned to the term Metaphysics a term at first sight almost equally indefinite in its etymological signification and in its actual use. As regards the orioin of the name, the most recent discussions appear on the whole to confirm the commonly-received opinion, according to which the term Metaphysics, though originally employed to designate a treatise of Aristotle, was probably unknown to that philosopher himself It is true that the oldest and best of the extant commentators on Aristotle refers the inscription of the treatise to the Stagirite ;* but in the extant writings of Aristotle himself, though the work and its subject are frequently referred to under the titles of
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Henry Mansel was born on October 6, 1820, at Cosgrove, Northamptonshire.
Mansel was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford. He also received an honorary academic degree in divinity (D. D. ).
Mansel was elected Waynflete professor of moral and metaphysical philosophy there in 1859. In 1866 he was appointed regius professor of ecclesiastical history and canon of Christ Church. Two years later he became dean of St. Paul’s.
Most of Mansel’s philosophical works centre on the relation between human thought and human experience. For the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1857) he wrote an article on metaphysics in which he discussed this relationship and developed Hamilton’s views. In his Bampton Lectures, The Limits of Religious Thought (1858), Mansel expounded Hamilton’s doctrine that human knowledge is strictly limited to the finite and is "conditioned. " In reply to attacks on this notion by John Stuart Mill and other critics, Mansel defended Hamilton’s views in The Philosophy of the Conditioned (1866). His contention, however, that the human mind could not attain to any positive conception of the nature of God or his goodness provoked considerable controversy, and Mansel, who meant to attack deism, rather than theism, was accused of agnosticism. Concerned with problems of language and logic, Mansel discussed the verification of the meaning of different propositions and stressed the fundamental difficulty of arriving at particular truths. General knowledge, as his "Metaphysics" article indicated, is humanly possible, but specific truths are inscrutable. Consequently, faith is required in order to overcome the dilemma between the existence of evil and the goodness of God. Among Mansel’s other writings are Prolegomena logica: An Inquiry into the Psychological Character of Logical Processes (1851) and The Gnostic Heresies of the First and Second Centuries (1875); with J. Veitch he edited Hamilton’s Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, 4 vol. (1859–1860).
Henry Longueville Mansel died on July 1, 1871.
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Quotations:
"Action, and not knowledge, is man's destiny and duty in this life; and his highest principles, both in philosophy and in religion, have reference to this end. "
"Religion and philosophy may perhaps go on side by side; but their provinces are wholly distinct, and therefore there is no need to attempt a reconciliation between them. "
