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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: human 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- active?what Aristotle calls energy or formative process. It is self-determination, and not a mere external shape given to something. Although Aristotle seems to polemicize against Plato's Ideas, yet he holds substantially the same view of ultimate, true being, and names it, as we have .seen, God, Active Reason, and pure speculative knowing. That this is meant for a personal Reason, we may know from the fact that Aristotle calls it self-knowing Reason (voy6i? voi/6ea$), though there was no single Greek word meaning consciousness at the time he wrote. The procedure by which this absolute form is found is wholly objective, in the sense that Greek philosophy always investigates the objective coefficient of knowledge?what necessarily is, rather than how we know it, the subjective coefficient of knowledge. Modern philosophy is occupied chiefly with the problem of certitude?the how we know it?the subjective coefficient. But when modern philoso- -- X-?e- t.-.e i: thar / de.; - the-; ' Inre / relation, mode) on the Tot circumstance that these forms are i by the mind to be the logical condition of the enseiK of things in the world. Hegel due-overs the identity of this result with the resn'.is of Aristotle. The subjective philosophical movement en-is in the same way as the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217220231 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217220231 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 216 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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