Talk:History of Materialism and Critique of Its Present Importance

Idealism
"Ideal metaphysics ... have a value as the embodiment of high aspirations." Is it possible that the author of the 1911 Britannica article didn't know that philosophical Idealism is epistemological, not metaphysical? It is an investigation into the relation between mental ideas or images and the external objects that they represent. It is not an investigation into objects that have complete, perfect, or excellent characteristics. Lestrade 19:52, 17 October 2005 (UTC)Lestrade

Other Books
I deleted the paragraph on Logische Studien and Arbeiterfrage. These books are not related to The History of Materialism. Whoever copied this article from Encyc.1911 did not limit the process to the copying of information about only the one book.Lestrade 13:50, 12 January 2006 (UTC)Lestrade

Requested move
English speakers would be more familiar with the English edition of Lange's work. Jimaingram 05:45, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Warning
Readers of Ernest Chester Thomas’s English translation should note that in many cases he mistranslated the German word “Verstand.” Instead of translating it as “Understanding,” he often rendered “Verstand” as “Reason.” “Reason” is “Vernunft” in German, not “Verstand.” This can only mean that Thomas was unfamiliar with Kant’s philosophy in which, for example, the Categories are pure concepts of the Understanding, not of Reason. The difference between “Verstand” [Understanding] and “Vernunft” [Reason] in Kant’s philosophy is of the greatest importance.Lestrade (talk) 17:38, 8 September 2016 (UTC)Lestrade