History of Modern Philosophy

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History of Modern Philosophy, From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time, is by Richard Falckenberg. The translator's preface says that the aim of the translation is the same as that of the original work, a manual meant to be at once scientific and popular and to stand midway between the exhaustive expositions of the larger histories and the meager sketches of the compendiums. Richard Falckenberg is named as Professor of Philosophy in the University of Erlangen.

The text says that human knowledge and the relation of God to the world are the two poles of the Cusan's system, which distinguishes four stages of knowledge. Lowest of all stands sense, together with imagination, which yields only confused images. Rationalism is described as regarding even those concepts which have a content as innate, whereas empiricism is described as regarding all, even the highest formal concepts, as abstracted from experience.