The Roots of Realty: Being Suggestions for a Philosophical Reconstruction

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B. W. Dodge, 1908 - Всего страниц: 331
 

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Стр. 227 - the granting of a general physical necessity does not improve the case for the theist's contention. "It must needs be that offences come, but woe unto him by whom they come!" The difficulty involved in the foregoing problem arises from the fact that the moment we envisage the world as in any sense the outcome
Стр. 201 - the fulfilment or completed reality of the cycle in question. Hence it is evident that a "point" is always given in favour of the good, in the sense that all concrete evil issues in concrete good, and not conversely. Thus the trend of all evolution is towards the good, notwithstanding that we
Стр. 190 - bloodless category." A beauty with no shadow of ugliness, actual or potential, to set it off, would not enter into any conscious synthesis as beauty. Similarly an absolute truth out of all relation to falsehood or error would be a colourless and worthless platitude, and would forfeit its
Стр. 237 - either deducible from one or other of the above four pairs, or, if not, from some sort of cross-union between two or more of them. We have found that the particular itself has an intensive or qualitative and an extensive or quantitative character. As intensive, particularity is identical with the thisness of
Стр. 190 - It would be a light that was indistinguishable from darkness. A good which had completely absorbed evil, and with which no evil was to be contrasted, could not enter into consciousness as a real good. A God " too pure to look upon iniquity
Стр. 125 - There is, of course, a difficulty in deciding between the view taken by different individuals, or even by the same individual at different times, or under different circumstances, as to what is predicable of reality. This does not really affect our main argument, but is perhaps worth calling attention to at the present juncture. What, for instance, is the reality of a historical period— say, the Middle
Стр. 63 - intelligible apperception" that has nothing to do with time or its content. Since, however, we are dealing with particular happenings in a time-process, it is quite clear that it cannot be used in the latter sense. It must mean, therefore,
Стр. 12 - universal and necessary element which all reality, all objectivity, involves, is clearly thought into the object. Yet although thought into the object, it is as clearly not thought into it by the individual mind, since the latter finds it already there in the object as perceived. If we take it away from the object, the object ceases to be object.
Стр. 201 - good and evil, including happiness and its reverse, is one of those ultimate oppositions, lying deep down in the nature of things, which cannot be transcended without abolishing reality itself. But let us not be mistaken ; every concrete
Стр. 246 - Now happiness, to endure as happiness, we have seen, cannot be a finality ; it cannot be something fixed once for all and unchanging. What applies to happiness as element of the telos applies also to the telos itself, viewed as concrete, and to the Absolute, of which it may be conceived as the highest expression. Happiness, though not the whole purpose comprised in the

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