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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE GEEEK AND GERMAN PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES. THE significance of Hegel in the History of Philosophy is to be found in the fact that he unites in one system the Aristotelian and Kantian movements in thought. Aristotle had long ago discovered the principle of absolute truth, and had made application of that principle in the explanation of the two worlds (nature and man) as those worlds appeared at the epoch in which he lived. His principle as found in his Metaphysics (or, as he called it, itpoorri pio5opia, 11, 7), is that of absolute cognition and life, God as the perfect living being, whose cognition is that high form of knowing by wholes or totalities?the knowing of all things in their causes, the knowing of the entirety of relations of a thing in its cause. He calls this highest activity of mind Qeeapelv, theoretical knowing, or speculative knowing (the Latin translation of the word being speculare). In his De Anima he calls this highest principle active Reason (rov? Koirjrino'i) to distinguish it from lower forms of mind found in the human soul. This conception of the absolute first principle of the world, thus identified by Aristotle with the human soul as being the perfect reality of what thehuman soul is potentially, makes the destiny of man an eternal one, and makes the soul more substantial than any object in the world of nature in time and space. Such a philosophical view was especially adapted to interpret the deep insights of the Christian dogmas, and St. Thomas Aquinas completed Christian theology by founding it on Aristotle's system. The Greek movement in philosophy culminated in finding the absolute form, which Plato calls the Idea. The Idea means a universal that is self-1 active?what Aristotle calls energy or formative process. It is...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217005180 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217005187 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 226 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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