02443cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000060010610000310011224500530014326400510019630000470024733600260029433700260032033800360034650000310038250802320041352012700064553400450191565300110196065300150197165300100198670000490199685600430204599900170208836208UtSlPG20260610133827.0mcr n260607r2011||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aB1 aCousin, Victor,d1792-186710aLectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2011 a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats atextbtxt2rdacontent acomputerbc2rdamedia aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier aRelease date is 2011-05-23 aProduced by Geetu Melwani, Dave Morgan, Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) a"Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good" by Victor Cousin is a philosophical work written in the early 19th century. This text compiles a series of lectures centered on foundational philosophical concepts, focusing on the interrelations of truth, beauty, and morality. Cousin elaborates on the principles of philosophy and aims to establish a doctrine that blends modern philosophical thought with spiritualism, emphasizing the importance of universal truths that transcend individual experiences. At the start of the work, the author presents his motivations for compiling these lectures after requests to collect his thoughts into a coherent system. He reflects on the relationship between philosophy and the critical analyses from the previous century, specifically addressing the problems of empirical and rationalist schools of thought. Cousin sets the stage for a discourse on universal and necessary principles that govern knowledge, illustrating the importance of introspection and reason in understanding these concepts. The opening context highlights a structured approach to philosophy, underscoring the necessity of debate and the continuous evolution of ideas within the realm of human thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.) nOriginal publication data not identified aEthics aAesthetics aTruth1 aWight, O. W.q(Orlando Williams),d1824-188840uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36208 c77048d77048