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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
like it, seeks the foundation of our time and space-bounded world in a spiritual,
unchangeable, and eternal being, an absolute personality above and independent of
it. The sociology and state theory of Boström, as well as his ethics and philosophy
of religion, i. e. his whole practical philosophy, are rarely rivaled in the reasonable
purity of their pervading tone, and in an uncompromising adherence to the
fundamental thought of personal self-determination. The philosophical view of Boström
has had a powerful influence upon the higher spiritual life of Sweden, and
continued for a long time to reign wellnigh absolute within his own science.
Pontus Wikner.
After * painting by G. vox Robe.w
Owing to various conditions, the national Swedish philosophy has not yet
reached results adequate to the significance of its indwelling thoughts. Such deep
preparatory investigations as must form the basis of a philosophical structure, now
more than formerly, have by Swedish thinkers been published only to a limited
extent. To this may be owing also the fact that Swedish philosophy has not been
able to hold its own so successfully against naturalistic tendencies as might be
expected from its scientific resources. Yet, it continues, within the so-called
Bo-strömian school, its aims and development. Among the older representatives of this
school who have worked in close contact with the original form of the Boström
system, may be mentioned especially the Uppsala names S. Ribbing (1816/99),
C. Y. Sahlin (born 1824, låte professor at Uppsala), K. Claëson (1827/59), and
H. Edfeldt (born 1836), and the professors of Lund A. Nyblaeus (1821/99), and
P. J. H. Leander (born 1831). Among members of a younger and less
homogeneous group, but continuing historically the Boströmian philosophy, though
nevertheless in part deviating from it, are counted the Uppsala Professors E. O. Burman
(born 1845), and K. R. Geijer (born 1849), the Uppsala Docents L. H. Åberg
(1851/95) and F. v. Schéele (born 1853), and at the Private University of
Gothenburg Professor V. Norström (born 1856), and Docent E. Liljeqvist (born 1865).
Among all, Ribbing by his learned and original work »Platos Ideel&ra» (also
in a German translation) and »Socratische Studien», which must still be consulted
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