 The meanest thing that exists has a life of its own, absolutely unique and individual, which we can partly understand by terms borrowed from our own experience, but which is no more identical with, or in any way like, the...  Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic - Page 73by John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart - 1896 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - Personality - 1887 - 274 pages
...Categories are not the skeleton round which an indefinite " materiature " gathers to form a thing. The meanest thing that exists has a life of its own,...we can partly understand by terms borrowed from our 1 Werke, vi. 46 ; Wallace, 39 ; in the context of some of the passages already quoted. own experience,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1888 - 658 pages
...jnean by "the individual " ? That question is nowhere distinctly answered. On p. 125 it is said : " The meanest thing that exists has a life of its own, absolutely unique and individual," &c. Is it implied that a fragment of stone, for example, is such a "real individual"? The fragments... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - Personality - 1893 - 300 pages
...indefinite "materiature" gathers to form a thing. The meanest thing that exists has a life of its own, unique and individual, which we can partly understand...own experience, but which is no more identical with the description we give of it, than our own inner life is identical with the description we give of... | |
 | Joseph Howard Philp - Individualism - 1916 - 104 pages
...absolutely unique and individual which we can partly understand by terms borrowed from our own experiences, but which is no more identical with or in any way...inner life is. identical with the description we give it in a book of philosophy. \Ve must not sweep existential reality off the board, iinder the persuasion... | |
 | Joseph Howard Philp - Individualism - 1916 - 100 pages
...into an Absolute Self Consciousness. Now logical abstractions can not thicken into real existences. The meanest thing that exists has a life of its own,...can partly understand by terms borrowed from our own experiences, but which is no more identical with or in any way like the - description we give of it,... | |
 | Eleanor Bell, Gavin Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 292 pages
...relations than there was without one. (Seth 1887: 126) Seth insists against Hegel's logical system that the meanest thing that exists has a life of its own....we give of it. than our own inner life is identical ivith the description we give of it in a book of philosophy. (Seth 1887: 126) For Seth, acknowledgment... | |
 | John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart - 284 pages
...Sensible existence has been characterised by 1 Critique of Pure Reason, Book n. Chap. HI. Section 4. 2 of, cit. p. 128. the attributes of individuality,...identical with the description we give of it in a book of philosophy2." But to deny the importance of the sensible element in experience, taken as independent,... | |
 | Henry Bett - Philosophy, Medieval - 1925 - 220 pages
...existences. Categories are not the skeleton round which an indefinite 'materiature' gathers to form a thing. The meanest thing that exists has a life of its own,...description we give of it in a book of philosophy. Existence is one thing, knowledge is another." AS PringlePattison, Hegelianism and Personality, pp.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1894 - 614 pages
...better than a dead lion, and even an atom is more than a category" (p. 124). And again (pp. 125-6): "The meanest thing that exists has a life of its own,...description we give of it in a book of philosophy". The many passages of which these are typical appear to indicate a method of criticism upon which the... | |
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