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Schurman, Jacob Gould was born on May 22, 1854 in Freetown, Prince Edward Island.
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Excerpt from Philippine Affairs: A Retrospect and Outlook; An Address Dewey's victory in Manila Bay, consent to leave the oppremed Filipinos any longer under the domination of Spain. What remained? If Spain were driven out of the Philippines, and American sovereignty were not set up, the peace of the world would be endangered. This consequence the President drew, and then pointed out at some length that the Commission he proposed to send to the Philippines would have the unique oppor tunity and the rare duty of advising the Government and people of the United States, at a critical period in their history, in regard to the gravest problem confront ing them. The Commission was to act as an advisory cabinet in the Philippines; and, besides the question of suitable local governments, the President was especially desirous of recommendations in regard to the political relations which, in view of Philippine conditions, it would be wise to' establish between the United States and the brown men in Asia, for whom the treaty of Paris invested us with sovereign responsibility. The treaty eliminated Spain; it was now for the United States to frame and carry into effect a policy in regard to the Philippines. To aid the Government at Wash ington in shaping that policy, and to co-operate with the naval and military authorities at Manila in the effective extension of American sovereignty over the archipelago, were the principal functions which the President was to assign to the Commission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Schurman, Jacob Gould was born on May 22, 1854 in Freetown, Prince Edward Island.
Prince of Wales College. Charlottetown. P.E.I., 1870-1872. Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 1872 5.
University of London, 1875-1878.
Professor of English Literature, Logic, and Political Economy, Acadia University, 1880. Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1882. Cornell University, 1885.
President °f Cornell University. 1892, and served until 1921, although he obtained leaves of absence to serve as first Chairman of the Philippines Commission, and as US Minister to Greece and Montenegro. After his Cornell service he became US Ambassador to China and then to Germany.
Founded the Philosophical Review in 1892.
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Schurman was a metaphysical idealist, but his principal interests were in the alleged conflicts between science and religion, and in formulating a worldview based on reason and experience. His early works deal with the moral issues which various thinkers believed to have been posed by the theory of evolution. Against the social Darwinists he argued that evolution has only an indirect bearing on moral principles because moral theories cannot be based upon scientific principles. The indirect bearing of evolutionary theories arises from the fact that the application of moral theories involves factual premises and so different historical situations pose different problems in different historical contexts. The fact that the universe is evolving suggests that the conditions for ideal moral behaviour arise only at a given stage of development. Two of Schurman’s later books deal with questions of religion, which he believed could be given a rational foundation. Although he was much interested in the British idealists and his philosophy was strongly shaped by the conflicts of his time over biological evolution. Schurman’s work is most strongly marked by his respect— critical though it was—for Kant. Armour and Trott (1981) have explored the relations between his philosophy and his diplomatic and educational work. Armour (1981) has made an effort to reconstruct the philosophy of history which is immanent in his Balkan Wars (1914). His influence on the creation of the American Philosophical Association and the professionalization of American philosophy is mentioned in Wilson (1990).