John Grote (1813-1866), brother of the historian and parliamentary radical George, was a clergyman and academic - in 1855 he succeeded William Whewell as professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge. Only Part One of the Exploratio, described modestly as 'rough notes on modern intellectual science', appeared during Grote's lifetime; the second volume appeared as late as 1900. The work is a substantive contribution to nineteenth-century metatphysics, with discussions of idealism and materialism, positivism and phenomenalism, consciousness and the self. Grote also coined the term 'relativism' to characterize the thesis of Protagoras that 'man is the measure of all things'. Among contemporary philosophers whose ideas are discussed we find Hamilton, Ferrier, Whewell, and of course J.S. Mill.
- ISBN10 1855061937
- ISBN13 9781855061934
- Publish Date 15 June 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Thoemmes Continuum
- Edition Facsimile of 1865 ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 688
- Language English