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philosophy.
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foreign and native. It probably had its origin, outwardly, in the ideas of
Sehelling, while, looked at from an internal point of view and according to its
actual bearings, it was prepared by that philosophical tendency in Sweden whose
promoters were the Uppsala professors N. F. Biberg (1776—1827), S. Grubbe
(1786—1853), and E. G. Geijer (1783—1847). The last mentioned, also and
above all the foremost historian of Sweden, adopts in philosophy a special
position, somewhat out of touch with that of the ex professo philosophers. His
chief philosophical work (Lectures on the History of Man, edited from notes
taken by S. Ribbing), expounds the philosophy of history on the foundation of
profound metaphysical speculation, of which the personal idea is the central
point.
Kristofer Jakob Boström.
The philosophy of Boström is presented in a system which is clear, simple,
and grand in its fundamental conception, original in its invention, and consistent,
though rather brief, in its execution. Its theory, which is the fundamental part, breaks
with the constructive method embraced by the German idealism of Kant, and
in a certain contrast with it, seeks the foundation of our _worl<j_.of time—Mid,
space in a spiritual, unchangeable, and eternal being, an absolute personality
exalted and independent. TEë sociology and political science of Boström, as
well as his ethics and philosophy of religion, i. e.’ the whole of his practical
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