Recent British Philosophy
by David Masson
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217979559
Paperback|9780217979559
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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: exist somewhere at present, throwing stones both at Atheism and Pantheism ? III. THE ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE. Mind or Consciousness, whatever it may be, is that organism in the midst of all things through which all our knowledge of all things must come. Philosophers, therefore, may make a study of that; and they have done so under the name of Psychology., Round this organism, howsoever related to it, is the vast and varied Cosmos, or phenomenal and historical Universe, which the organism reports to us as hung in Space and voyaging through Time. Philosophers may make a study oftAat; and such a study would be Cosmology. But, beyond this whole phenomenal Universe or Cosmos which has the Mind of Man in its midst, it has been the passion of Philosophy to assert or speculate a transcendent Universe, or Empyrean of Things in Themselves, of Essential Causes, of Absolute or Noumenal, as distinct from Phenomenal, Existence. What enspheres the Cosmos, what supports it, of what Absolute Reality underneath and beyond itself is it significant, of what Absolute Meaning is it the expression, the allegory, the poem ? May not the entire Phenomenal Cosmos, hung in Space and voyaging through Time, be but an illusion?and this whether we consider it to be, within itself, a play of Matter alone, or of Spirit alone, or of both Matter and Spirit ? If we feel that it is not, on what warrant do we so feel ? In what tissues of facts and events, material or moral, in thisphenomenal Space-and-Time World shall we trace the likeliest filaments of that golden cord by which we then supposed it attached to a World not of Space and Time; and how shall we, denizens of Space and Time, succeed in throwing the end of the cord beyond our Space-and Time World's limits ? Is the Cosmos a bubble ? Then, what breath has...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217979559 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217979556 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 152 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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