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 140 PHILOSOPHICAL PERIODICALS. ARCHIV FUR SYSTEMATISCHE PHILOSOPHIE. Neue Folge. Bd. v. Heft 4. H. Grriinbaum. ' Zur Kritik der Modernen Causalansohauungen." [Criticises the attempts of Avenarius, Petzoldt and Mach to substitute other conceptions for that of causality ; it is maintained that all such attempts presuppose as the basis of their procedure the conception with which they pretend to dispense. The author finally sums up his own view of the principle of causality in thirty-seven short paragraphs. His general position is that causality is a concept due to the union of two factors on the one hand the empirical fact of the regular sequence of certain phenomena ; on the other, the a priori principle which demands a rational explanation for all changes.] L. Goldschmidt. ' Kant's " Widerlegung des Idealismus ".' [Maintains the entire consistency of Kant's treatment in the two editions of the Critique. In both the aim is to justify belief in a given external world in space and time as against the subjective idealism which would make the phenomenal reality of material things a mere illusion.] Max Dossoir. ' Beitrage zur Aesthetic.' [A long and important article. The author sums up his results as follows : There is a complex and ramifying interconnexion of science and art. The historical sciences of life and mind contain a large admixture of art. On the other hand, much that is properly scientific enters into poetic construction, especially of the romantic order. It is found that logical motives and processes play a prominent part in the origin of the plastic arts. Even at the present day thought of a scientific character plays a more un- restricted part in works of art than is desirable from the purely artistic point of view. A further article is promised dealing with the conflict of scientific tendencies in the mind of the creative artist.] B. Bosanquet. ' Systematic Philosophy in the United Kingdom in 1898.' [Notices Hodgson's Metaphysic of Experience, Ward's Naturalism and Agnosticism, Wallace's Lectures and Essays, Watson's Outline of Philosophy, and Latta's Leibniz,~ PHILOSOPHISCHES JAHRBUCH. Bd. xii., Heft 1. Dr. E. Rolf. ' Mod- erne Anklagen gegen den Charakter. . . Sokrates, etc.' [In this, the first of two articles, the writer examines the accusations made in recent times, especially by Dollinger, Wolf, Zeller, etc., against Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and that of paiderastia in particular. He shows that, notwithstanding expressions used in certain parts of their works, there is absolutely no reason to suspect them ; the whole of their doctrine is diametrically opposed to such vice.] V. Cathrein. ' Der Begriff des sittlich Guten.' [This paper is the first part of a discussion with Prof. Mausbach, who, at the Catholic Congress in Freiburg (1897) had blamed Pr. Cathrein' s definition of moral goodness as insufficient, and presented another, for which he claimed the authority of St. Thomas. Pr. Cathrein points out various shortcomings of the definition, and shows that it does not agree with St. Thomas' idea of moral goodness.] G-. Buschbell. ' Der Traditionalismus Bonald's.' [A historico - philosophical paper, dealing with De Bonald's theory of ideas and the origin of language, which he assumed to have been given by revelation and to have caused our ideas, when given, thus making the whole of our knowledge supernatural. In conclusion, the writer takes the trouble to show that such a theory is untenable.] N. v. Soeland. ' Zur Frage von dem Wesen des Eaumes (Conclusion).' [We cannot conceive space as in less than three dimensions ; one or two dimensional space is an abstraction absurdly transferred to things ; and there can be no more than three, for the three correspond to infinite space. In a word, space means the three dimensions into which we analyse it taken together, and nothing more.] C. Gutberlet. ' Neueres uber den Tastsinn.' [A friendly review