What Is Thought?
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ISBN13: 9780217904841
Paperback|9780217904841
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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: this is?how contradiction is life, and the movement of life, we shall eventually see, indeed. 3. The Question Of A Substantial First It is no alien consideration here, but one very naturally in place, that it is not the things themselves in their individual entity?it is not the matter, the substratum of them, that is the important element; no, it is the element of relations that is this, the formal element, the immaterial element; it is not the Tl eariv, so to speak, but the ri Tlv elvai. Always the meaning it is that is substantial and alive: the symbol, the representation in itself?that is, the external thing itself?is indifferent, null, idle, useless, dead. Alone the ideality is the true reality. Learn ever, says Athos to Ilaoul, to distinguish between the king and the kingdom. The king is but man, the kingdom is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for it is this that is everything. In these latter nineteenth century days, men find everything in the case (the outside) and nothing in the works (in the physical body, and not in the psychical mind). And yet the spore of this universe, the principle from which it grows, and the principle on which it sits, is not a material, but an immaterial one. This, to be sure, is to put on its head the established order of explanation, or what is currently figured for explanation; but this, for all that, may be only to put it right. The spore of this universe?that entity that approves itself as the first entity, the very first thing in existence, the principle from which it grows and on which it sits, as said, ?what is that ? There are those in this universe who, when explanation is wanted?just when there is question of explanation general...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217904841 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021790484X |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $22.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 318 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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