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He was born in Edinburgh on the 16th of June in 1808. He was the son of John Ferrier, writer to the signet.
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONSCIOUSNESS. PART I. CHAPTER I. Among the fables of the East there is a story which runs thus: A certain young man inherited from his forefathers a very wonderful lamp, which for generations had been the ornament of his family, and from which he now derived his livelihood, as they, in former times, had done. Its virtues were of such a nature that, while by its means all his reasonable wants were supplied, a check was, at the same time, imposed upon any extravagant exercise of its beneficence. Once a-day, and no oftener, might its services be called into requisition. It consisted of twelve branches, and as soon as these were lighted, twelve dervishes appeared, each of whom, after performing A sundry circumvolutions, threw him a small piece of money, and vanished. Thus was the young man provided every day with means sufficient for his daily subsistence; and his desires being moderate, he for a long time considered this a bountiful provision, and remained satisfied with the good which he enjoyed upon such easy terms. By degrees, however, when he reflected upon his situation, his heart became disturbed by the stirrings of avarice and ambition, and a restless desire to know more of the extraordinary source from whence his comforts flowed. He was unwilling to die, like his ancestors, and transmit the lamp to his posterity, without at least making the attempt to probe his way into its profounder mysteries. He suspected that he was merely skimming the surface of a sea of inexhaustible riches, the depths of which he was sure the lamp might be made to open up to him, if he but understood and could give full effect to the secret of its working. And then, if this discovery were made,.what earthly potentate would be able to vie...
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He was born in Edinburgh on the 16th of June in 1808. He was the son of John Ferrier, writer to the signet.
He studied at the Royal High School in Edinburgh, then at Edinburgh University and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He studied German philosophy at Heidelberg University in a company with Hamilton.
His book "Institutes of Metaphysic" (1854), was directed against the philosophy of Hamilton and akin to the spirit of the philosophy of the identity of Schelling and the panlogism of Hegel. The book composed of three parts: the theory of knowledge (epistemology), the theory of ignorance (Agnology), and the theory of being (ontology); it is written "more geometrico", that is, from the definitions and axioms a number of strictly proved propositions were derived. The central idea of the system is the idea of absolute and necessary being. Despite the unsympathetic form, reminiscent of the ethics of Spinoza and the series of conclusions of Wolff, Ferrier's book is of great interest in its historico-critical part. Ferrier very cleverly criticized the Scottish researchers of the human mind, especially Reed. He died on June 11, 1864 in Scotland.
In 1842 he was appointed professor of civil history at Edinburgh University, and in 1845 professor of moral philosophy and political economy at the University of St Andrews. He became famous for his book Institutes of Metaphysic (1854), where he held the idea that the former philosophers analyzed only the state of the human mind, ignoring the fact of consciousness, and where he introduced the term "theory of knowledge".
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He married his cousin, Margaret Anne, daughter of John Wilson. He had five children, one of whom became the wife of Sir Alexander Grant.
