Personality and Reality: A Proof of the Real Existence of a Supreme Self in the UniverseMacmillan, 1926 - 190 من الصفحات |
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A. N. Whitehead Absolute activity actual æsthetic agnosticism alike altogether anthropomorphism appears argument argument from design artistic aspects atom attain attributes automatic mechanism Basis of Moral beauty become Bradley Bradley's capacity chap character characteristic complex concept consciousness constitute continuous cooperating factors course definite degree Deism detail Development of Religion Direct Realism discern dominant mind dynamic electrons elements entire environment equally essential experience expressed external factors final finite freedom function fundamental further higher human ideal immanence implies important individual inevitably infinite inherent intellect logical logical implication lutely manifestation material world matter means merely modern nature never observed obvious once organization pantheism patent personality Philosophic Basis physical universe plainly plasticity principle problem protoplasm psychic purely reality reference regarded relation result secondly selfhood sense sphere standpoint static structure subordinate supreme term Theism theory of relativity thought tion transcendent true truth ultimate unity universal evolution whole wholly
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الصفحة 80 - In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account.
الصفحة 72 - Such a whole state would possess in a superior form that immediacy which we find (more or less) in feeling ; and in this whole all divisions would be healed up. It would be experience entire, containing all elements in harmony. Thought would be present as a higher intuition ; will would be there where the ideal had become reality ; and beauty and pleasure and feeling would live on in this total fulfilment. Every flame of passion, chaste or carnal, would still burn in the Absolute unquenched and unabridged,...
الصفحة 59 - Whenever my introspective glance succeeds in turning round quickly enough to catch one of these manifestations of spontaneity in the act, all it can ever feel distinctly is some bodily process, for the most part taking place within the head.
الصفحة 62 - All is appearance, and no appearance, or any combination of these, is the same as Reality. This is half the truth, and by itself it is a dangerous error. We must turn at once to correct it by adding its counterpart and supplement. The Absolute is its appearances, it really is all and every one of them.
الصفحة 107 - ... care to object to it.1 But I hold to the above fact because to me it is the necessary conclusion from what is certainly given. And I hold to it because on this ground it seems to me possible, far better than on other grounds, to do justice to the various aspects of life. And when I hear, for instance, that in the Absolute all personal interests are destroyed, I think I understand on the contrary how this is the only way and the only power in and by which such interests are really safe.
الصفحة 67 - Appearance without reality would be impossible, for what then could appear? And reality without appearance would be nothing, for there certainly is nothing outside appearances. But on the other hand Reality (we must repeat this) is not the sum of things. It is the unity in which all things, coming together, are transmuted, in which they are changed all alike, though not changed equally.
الصفحة 77 - That essentially desires an end which is not merely moral because it is super-moral. Nay, even personality itself, our whole individual life and striving, tends to something beyond mere personality. Of course, the Absolute has personality, but it fortunately possesses so much more, that to call it personal would be as absurd as to ask if it is moral.1 But in self-consciousness, I may be told, we...
الصفحة 95 - ... necessary stimulus to the necessary parts to act in such a way as is consonant with the maintenance of the organism ? On behalf of this view, there would not be lacking evidence of blindness and mechanical tendency in human, as in other animate, behaviour. Two things, however, must be said : — (a) There seems no theoretical limit to the plasticity of human purpose. No range is too vast, no consideration too remote, no correlation too complex to affect our action if occasion calls. We are nowhere...
الصفحة 107 - The immanence of the Absolute in finite centres, and of finite centres in the Absolute, I have always set down as inexplicable.
الصفحة 170 - ... in the sense in which we may rightly speak of degrees of reality and of God's reality being greater than yours or mine, I should not attribute a higher degree of reality to the 'Universe as a whole...