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HENRY LONGUEVILLE MANSEL (1820-1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:LONGUEVILLE See also:MANSEL (1820-1871)  , See also:English philosopher, was See also:born at Cosgrove, See also:Northamptonshire (where his See also:father, also See also:Henry See also:Longueville See also:Mansel, See also:fourth son of See also:General See also:John Mansel, was See also:rector), on the 6th of See also:October 182o . He was educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' School and St John's See also:College, See also:Oxford . He took a See also:double first in 1843, and became See also:tutor of his college . He was appointed reader in moral and metaphysical See also:philosophy at Magdalen College in 1855, and See also:Waynflete See also:professor in 1859 . He was a See also:great opponent of university reform and of the Hegelianism which was then beginning to take See also:root in Oxford . In 1867 he succeeded A . P . See also:Stanley as professor of ecclesiastical See also:history, and in 1868 he was appointed See also:dean of St See also:Paul's . He died on the 31st of See also:July 1871 . The philosophy of Mansel, like that of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Hamilton, was mainly due to See also:Aristotle, See also:Kant and See also:Reid . Like Hamilton, Mansel maintained the purely formal See also:character of See also:logic, the duality of consciousness as testifying to both self and the See also:external See also:world, and the See also:limitation of knowledge to the finite and " conditioned." His doctrines were See also:developed in his edition of See also:Aldrich's Artis logicae rudimenta (1849)—his See also:chief contribution to the reviving study of Aristotle—and in his Prolegomena logica: an Inquiry into the Psychological Character of Logical Processes (1851, 2nd ed. enlarged 1862), in which the limits of logic as the " See also:science of formal thinking " are rigorously deter-See also:mined . In his See also:Bampton lectures on The Limits of Religious Thought (1858, 5th ed .

1867; Danish trans . 1888) he applied to See also:

Christian See also:theology the metaphysical See also:agnosticism which seemed to result from Kant's See also:criticism, and which had been developed in Hamilton's Philosophy of the Unconditioned . While denying all knowledge of the supersensuous, Mansel deviated from Kant in contending that See also:cognition of the ego as it really is is itself a fad of experience . Consciousness, he held—agreeing thus with the See also:doctrine of " natural See also:realism " which Hamilton developed from Reid—implies knowledge both of self and of the external world . The latter Mansel's See also:psychology reduces to consciousness of our organism as extended; with the former is given consciousness of See also:free will and moral See also:obligation . A See also:summary of his philosophy is contained in his See also:article " See also:Meta-physics " in the 8th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica (separately published, 186o) . Manserwrote also The Philosophy of the Conditioned (1866) in reply to See also:Mill's criticism of Hamilton; Letters, Lectures, and Reviews (ed . See also:Chandler, 1873), and, The Gnostic Heresies (ed . J . B . See also:Lightfoot, 1875, with a See also:biographical See also:sketch by See also:Lord See also:Carnarvon) . He wrote a commentary on the first two gospels in the See also:Speaker's Commentary .

See J . W . See also:

Burgon, Lives of Twelve See also:Good Men (1888—188e) ; See also:James See also:Martineau, Essays, Reviews and Addresses (See also:London,1891), 117 seq . ; A . W . See also:Bean, History of See also:Rationalism (1906), ii . 100—112; See also:Masson, See also:Recent See also:British Philosophy (3rd ed., London, 1877), pp . 2g2 seq . ; Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen in Dict . Nat . Biog.of See also:Cologne from 1558 to 1562 . A See also:scion of another See also:branch of the Mansfelds was See also:Peter See also:Ernst, See also:Furst von See also:Mansfeld (1517-1604), See also:governor of See also:Luxemburg, who unlike his kinsmen was loyal to See also:Charles V .

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emperor to See also:Tunis and fought for him in See also:France . He was equally loyal to his son, See also:Philip II. of See also:Spain, whom he served at St Quentin and in the See also:Netherlands . He distinguished himself in the See also:field and found See also:time to See also:lead a See also:body of troops to aid the See also:king of France against the See also:Huguenots . In this capacity he was See also:present in 1569 at the See also:battle of Moncontour, where another member of his See also:family, See also:Count Wolrad of Mansfeld (d . 1578) was among the Huguenot leaders . The Mansfeld family became See also:extinct in 1780 on the See also:death of Josef See also:Wenzel See also:Nepomuk, See also:prince of See also:Fondi, the lands being divided between See also:Saxony and See also:Prussia . See L . F . Niemann, Geschichte der Grafen von Mansfeld (See also:Aschersleben, 1834) . M'ANSFELD, ERNST, See also:GRAF VON (c . 158o-1626), See also:German soldier, was an illegitimate son of Peter Ernst, Furst von Mansfeld, and passed his See also:early years in his father's See also:palace at Luxemburg . Ile gained his earliest military experiences in See also:Hungary, where his See also:half-See also:brother Charles (1543–1595) also a soldier of renown, held a high command in the imperial See also:army .

Later he served under the See also:

Archduke See also:Leopold, until that prince's ingratitude, real or fancied, drove him into the arms of the enemies of the See also:house of See also:Habsburg . Although remaining a See also:Roman See also:Catholic he allied himself with the See also:Protestant princes, and during the earlier See also:part of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War he was one of their foremost champions . He was despatched by Charles See also:Emmanuel, See also:duke of See also:Savoy, at the See also:head of about 2000 men to aid the revolting Bohemians when war See also:broke out in 1618 . He took See also:Pilsen, but in the summer of 1619 he was defeated at Zablat; after this he offered his services to the emperor See also:Ferdinand II. and remained inactive while the titular king of Bohemia, See also:Frederick V., elector See also:palatine of the See also:Rhine, was driven in headlong rout from See also:Prague . Mansfeld, however, was soon appointed by Frederick to command his army in Bohemia, and in 1621 he took up his position in the Upper See also:Palatinate, successfully resisting the efforts made by See also:Tilly to dislodge him . From the Upper he passed into See also:tile Rhenish Palatinate . Here he relieved See also:Frankenthal and took See also:Hagenau; then, joined by his See also:master, the elector Frederick, he defeated Tilly at Wiesloch in See also:April 1622 and plundered See also:Alsace and See also:Hesse . But Mansfeld's ravages were not confined to the lands of his enemies; they were ruinous to the districts he was commissioned to defend . At length Frederick was obliged to dismiss Mansfeld's troops from his service . Then joining Christian of See also:Brunswick the count led his army through See also:Lorraine, devastating the See also:country as he went, and in See also:August 1622 defeating the Spaniards at See also:Fleurus . He next entered the service of the See also:United Provinces and took up his quarters in See also:East See also:Friesland, capturing fortresses and inflicting' great hardships upon the inhabitants . A See also:mercenary and a See also:leader of mercenaries, Mansfeld often interrupted his See also:campaigns by journeys made for the purpose of raising See also:money, or in other words of selling his services to the highest See also:bidder, and in these See also:diplomatic matters he showed considerable skill .

About 1624 he paid three visits to London, where he was hailed as a See also:

hero by the populace, and at least one to See also:Paris . James I. was anxious to furnish him with men and money for the recovery of the palatinate, but it was not until See also:January 1625 that Mansfeld and his army of " raw and poor rascals " sailed from See also:Dover to the Netherlands . Later in the See also:year, the Thirty Years' War having been renewed under the leadership of Christian IV., king of See also:Denmark, he re-entered See also:Germany to take part therein . But on the 25th of April 1626 See also:Wallenstein inflicted a severe defeat upon him at the See also:bridge of See also:Dessau . Mansfeld, however, quickly raised another army, with which he intended to attack the hereditary lands of the house of See also:Austria, and pursued by Wallenstein he pressed forward towards, Hungary, where he hoped to accomplish his purpose .by the aid of Bethlem Gabor, prince of Transylvania . But when Gabor changed his policy and made See also:peace with the emperor; Mansfeld was compelled to disband his troops .

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