An Outline of the Idealistic Construction of Experience

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Macmillan and Company, limited, 1906 - 344 páginas
 

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Página 324 - On the holy mount stands the city he founded; 2 the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Página 311 - ... disestablishment were made general, the full effect would not appear at once. And I think that the tendency of the time is opposed to the view that the religious and the secular life of the individual and the community can form two separate and autonomous domains. I know that a theology of the absolute separation of the life of the Spirit and the life of the World has spread from Germany.
Página ix - A complete idealistic explanation of experience ought to show ( I ) that each phase of experience embodies in a specific way the one spiritual principle animating all ; (2) that each is distinct from every other simply by the way it embodies that principle; (3) that each is connected with the others, and so with the whole in virtue of its realising that principle with a certain degree of completeness ; (4) that the whole of experience is a necessary evolution of the one principle of experience through...
Página 135 - ... blank misgivings of a creature moving about in worlds not realised.
Página 106 - Experience always implies a relation between two distinct elements: the one is that for which something is, and the other the something which is presented. These are the so-called subject and object.
Página ix - ... well aware, prove of some value to students of philosophy, and of some assistance to those who have felt with Green that the work of the great idealists must
Página 264 - ... and contingently by reference to the history of thought and logical doctrine, the Categories are simply the necessary elements into which the unity of the experience is resolved. The Categories are not limited to a certain formal and arbitrary number ; the Categories are indefinite in number, are, if we choose, endless in number, for Reason is not to be exhausted in any detail of experience. The Categories, again, are not to be deduced by showing that experience is impossible without their use...
Página 282 - The specific individuality has a twofold character by its being consciousness of self by self; one self is what we have called the substantial universal, the other is the determinate limited individuality each possesses, and which makes each distinct from another. The first is the same for all and in all; the second is restricted to a certain area or sphere of that totality. Similarly, the universal substance "duplicates...
Página 135 - ... reserve which pursues empirical knowledge to its utmost limit of accuracy. It is the source, further, at once of the contingency found by science, and of its incessant and necessarily endless attempt to remove it. All these together make the self-conscious individual feel himself so detached from the world of sense as to be able to withdraw from it altogether into his own inner life, and even to doubt its very existence.
Página 318 - Reality has distinct moments because it is Spirit. These moments are realised separately in the distinct planes of experience already spoken of. The conscious realisation of Absolute Spirit in them constitutes different types of religious attitude. Or, put shortly, Religion is the Consciousness of the Life of God in man's experience. God is Absolute Spirit and is conscious of Himself as Spirit, and is conscious of Himself in Spirit. The ways in which He is conscious of Himself constitute and form...

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