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THIS book offers an excellent example of constructive thinking in theoretical and, practical philosophy. The problem of knowledge forms its central theme, and is taken as the basis of a more rational organization of human relations. Knowing is conceived as a process which produces and presents reports or ideas. The proper use of ideas leads to the conception of the world in terms of power, and not in terms of matter. The classical dualism between power and matter should not be referred to the world as such, but to a duality in the relations of the process of knowing.
Human Powers and Their Relations
By K. W. Monsarrat. Pp. xvi + 289. (Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool; London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1938.) 10s. 6d. net.
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G., T. Human Powers and Their Relations. Nature 142, 1100 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421100d0
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