Announcement of Courses in the Susan Linn Sage School of Philosophy

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FOUNDATION OF THE SCHOOL. The department of Philosophy is known as THE Susan Linn Sage Schooi, Of Philosophy. This School owes its existence to the generosity of the Hon. Henry W. Sage, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. At a meeting of the Board, held on Oct. 22d, 1890, Mr. Sage signified his intention of adding to the endowment of the Susan Linn Sage Philosophical Professorship, which he had established in:8S6in memory of his wife, a further gift of $200,000 to the department of Philosophy. His object was to provide permanently at Cornell University for philosophical instruction and investigation of the most varied kind and of the highest order. To that end he stipulated that the Trustees should, whenever it was needed, supplement the proceeds of his endowments with appropriations from the general funds of the University. The gift was made, and the legislation went into effect, in September, 1891. ITS OBJECT. The School is devoted to the free and unhampered quest and propagation of truth in regard to all those questions of human inquiry which are embraced by Logic, Psychology, Ethics, Pedagogy, Metaphysics, and the History and Philosophy of Religion. The evils of emphasizing certain portions of Philosophy to the practical exclusion of others, have become very apparent, though the advantages of specialization cannot be overestimated. It is the aim of this School to secure both comprehensiveness and thoroughness. All sides of Philosophy will be represented, and every method of discovering truth? observation, experiment, historical investigation, reflection, and speculation?will be welcome within its appropriate domain. To make the advantages of the School more accessible, scholarships and fellowships have been established, which are open to graduates of this and other ...