In these two Bode Memorial lectures, the author grapples with the problem of formulating general principles for education in a democratic society of separate and radically different individuals--how to achieve a proper balance of unity and variety. He concludes that "our principles are to be viewed as more or less impressionistic ideals which we should seek to realize in concrete living as best we can."--R. T.

More than any other philosopher except Descartes, Locke has seemed a man without an intellectual environment. Yolton's monograph performs the important task of shedding light into this corner of the history of ideas. By his perceptive selection of passages from Locke's contemporaries, Yolton makes clear the context of theological and philosophical debate into which the Essay must be fitted. And in the course of his investigations into the doctrine of innate ideas and the epistemological and religious scepticism its denial seemed (...) to entail, he reveals an interesting side of Locke's character and the character of his opponents and allies. --R. T. (shrink)

A Dover reprint of the 1911 English translation. The eight lectures deal with the interaction among the Oriental mysteries and late Roman paganism, with particular reference to the factors within the mysteries which made them attractive in the Empire.--R. T.

A doctoral dissertation seeking to establish the Thomist theory of substance by means of a refutation of the epistemologies of Descartes, Locke, Hume and Kant. --R. T.

A literate and informed study of the scientific background of Adams' writings. The discussion of his use of thermodynamics and phase-rule theory in developing his theory of society and history is especially enlightening.--R. T.

A history of philosophy designed for use in a beginning philosophy course. This work is vigorously written. It avoids smothering the student's interest under a heap of names and facts, but it hardly avoids the opposite difficulties: superficiality of treatment and too close an association with a particular philosophy course.--R. T.