Abstract: Marian Evans's conversation with Leroux indicated her awareness of the implications of the debate about logic. That debate raised the issue of the nature of truth. Many thinkers who focused intently upon the process of knowing came to see truth as residing in the very quest for it: such 'truths' as were discovered were inevitably partial, and invited modification. Opposed to this neo-Hegelian emphasis upon process were those thinkers who evolved dogmatic pronouncements about logical method, and ultimately, life, often cast in the shape of elaborate systems. Marian Evans's friendship with Herbert Spencer was important for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that it shed light on the intellectual preoccupations of the circles in which she moved, for Spencer made his own contribution to the debate about logic and the nature of truth. Marian Evans's reaction to that contribution helped to define her own stance. Spencer, with Chapman, and later, Lewes, provided her with the male companionship she needed. He had met Sara Hennell at Chapman's in the 1840s, and encountered Marian Evans in August 1851 when she was visiting the Great Exhibition. When she moved to London, the friendship burgeoned.KeywordsHuman NatureLogical MethodIntellectual LifeFree InquiryPhilosophical SpeculationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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