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Author: Muriel Bacheler Dawkins Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332108674 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 104
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Excerpt from Mysticism an Epistemological Problem a Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School, of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Not this ultimate Fact which I have found, he says, is unreal, nothing, but all the world of sense and feeling and thought with which I contrast it. The unknowable reality of the mystic must receive content; it cannot receive any content by positive definition, but only by contrast. Therefore the mystic says that all that is real it is not, yet it alone is real; hence all that we know is unreal, dream-stuff, a vast illusion. That is, as Prof. Royce has pointed out,2 the mystic seeks to give character to his ultimate zero by contrasting it with the real world, which must become, however, for that purpose, just another zero, and no more in metaphysics than in mathematics is the subtraction of one zero from another an intelligible process, giving any real result.2 Mysticism is a bad philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Muriel Bacheler Dawkins Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332108674 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 104
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Excerpt from Mysticism an Epistemological Problem a Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School, of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Not this ultimate Fact which I have found, he says, is unreal, nothing, but all the world of sense and feeling and thought with which I contrast it. The unknowable reality of the mystic must receive content; it cannot receive any content by positive definition, but only by contrast. Therefore the mystic says that all that is real it is not, yet it alone is real; hence all that we know is unreal, dream-stuff, a vast illusion. That is, as Prof. Royce has pointed out,2 the mystic seeks to give character to his ultimate zero by contrasting it with the real world, which must become, however, for that purpose, just another zero, and no more in metaphysics than in mathematics is the subtraction of one zero from another an intelligible process, giving any real result.2 Mysticism is a bad philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Muriel Bacheler Dawkins Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330593042 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 104
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Excerpt from Mysticism an Epistemological Problem a Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School, of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Mysticism as a philosophy is a doctrine of the "Abstract Universal." Whenever, from the time of the Indian Upanishads, through Neoplatonism and mediæval catholic mysticism, even in the later days of the Quakers, mysticism has become speculative, has sought to formulate its own inner meaning, it has been marked by a characterless Absolute at the center of it. It would be hard, perhaps, to discover a poorer speculative theory. Not only has the mystic's theory been often and most thoroughly refuted, but it is really incapable of rational statement. For whoever formulates the doctrine, does, by that very act, refute it. The mystic finds no satisfaction in any object of knowledge which is less than absolute, ultimate - yet every object of knowledge is less than ultimate, is somehow' defined, does somehow depend for its character on another. Therefore reality must be to the mystic no object of sense or of knowledge at all, nothing defined or definable, nothing even real or imaginable - and in these positings the mystic not only contradicts himself and all principles of rationality, but he also destroys his own doctrine by actually defining his Real, though only indeed as an absolutely unknowable, a zero,-and his ineffable zero he defines in turn as somehow' the only Real. For the mystic, having, in his attempt to avoid all limitation of his Real, limited it to absolute nothingness, seeks to give it character by way of contrast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Clarence Herbert Hamilton Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483245693 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 92
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Excerpt from A Psychological Interpretation of Mysticism: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Philosophy) The psychological viewpoint from which this interpretation of mysticism is undertaken is the functional one, the essential idea of which is that all mental processes are means by which the organism interacts with its environment in a way to further the total ongoing of life both individual and social. In accordance with this conception we shall, throughout, be speaking of the mystic experience as a mode of adjust ment and reaction under the stimulus of varying kinds of social environ ment. More particularly we shall study the operations of three great factors which seem to us sufficiently important to be the carrying cate gories of the discussion. These are the human instincts, sensitivity of temperament, and social environment. A general exposition of these in relation to the development of the mystical experience is given in the first chapter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: W. C. Keirstead Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780331725339 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 48
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Excerpt from Metaphysical Presuppositions of Ritschl: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Divinity School in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Systematic Theology) Lotze admits that metaphysics will only be able to unfold ideal forms to which the relation between everything real must conform.8 In ontology we seek a definition of thingness.9 We deal with a discovery of the universal formal predicates which must appertain to all that (whatever else it may be) which is called thing, or which appears in actuality as a subject of relations. Lotze starts from the general notions of a thing, and seeks to purify these in such a way as to attain a consistent and contradictionless concept. As a result, he reaches certain universal and necessary forms or categories of thought. But Lotze would reject Kant's method of the deduction of the categories. The content of sensation is as subjective as the forms of thought, and the validity of knowledge has to be determined on other grounds than from the analysis of the process of cognition. Lotze simply defines thingness in such a way as to have a consistent conception, and, as Mertz says: The assumption that these modified notions thus gained have an objective meaning, and that they somehow correspond to the real order of the existing world, which of course they can never actually describe, depends on the general confidence we have in our reasoning powers, and in the significance of the world in which we ourselves, with all the necessary courses of our thought, have a place assigned to them in harmony with the whole.10 If it be said that Lotze's method is an illegitimate abstraction of the universal element from its content in concrete experience, and the final positing of this as an absolute to account for experience, then this, if correct, is a criticism upon Lotze's ontology which Ritschl accepts, and possibly upon idealism in general. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Douglas Clyde Macintosh Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332317373 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 98
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Excerpt from The Reaction Against Metaphysics Physics in Theology: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctors of Philosophy In modern Protestant theology there are, in general, two methods, the conservative and the radical.' The former emphasizes objectivity as Opposed to the merely subjective. The latter stands for internality as distinct from all that remains external.2 But this distinction seems bound to disappear. The conservative is seeing ever more clearly the necessity of inner assurance; the radical, the importance Of Objective validity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Douglas Clyde Macintosh Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330119549 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 98
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Excerpt from The Reaction Against Metaphysics Physics in Theology: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctors of Philosophy Theology is the systematic expression of religious conviction, i.e., of belief with regard to the nature and activity of the deity, more particularly in so far as these are related to the vital interests of men. In modern Protestant theology there are, in general, two methods, the conservative and the radical. The former emphasizes objectivity as opposed to the merely subjective. The latter stands for internality as distinct from all that remains external. But this distinction seems bound to disappear. The conservative is seeing ever more clearly the necessity of inner assurance; the radical, the importance of objective validity. Conservatism in its original form recognized no distinction between biblical and systematic theology. All biblical statements, literally or allegorically interpreted, were suppposed to form, without further criticism, the content of Christian theology, which everyone was in duty bound to accept. As a matter of fact theologians usually made a selection of such texts as appealed to them most strongly, and made them determining, not only for theological construction, but also for the interpretation of all other Scripture passages. The necessity of allegorical and other arbitrary and unscientific methods of exegesis was transcended when once there was frankly recognized the distinction between a purely historical and a constructive or normative science - a distinction which was already implicit in Luther's critical evaluation of scriptural books according to the norm of the gospel. The difference between the two disciplines in question was originally felt to be, however, not so much a difference of form as of content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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