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Showing posts with label Francis Herbert Bradley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Francis Herbert Bradley. Show all posts

Thursday, November 26, 2009

"Appearance and Reality" by Francis Herbert Bradley,1893


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The distinction between
primary (sensed) qualities of physical objects and
secondary (structural) qualities
is based on appearance ;
in reality there is no such distinction.
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Upon analysis it turns out that space,time,objects,and selves are appearances,not realities ; the concepts do not stand up because alleged differences vanish when it is discovered that definitions are circular,empty,or inconsistent.
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The logical character of reality is that it does not contradict itself ;
the metaphysical character of reality is that it is one ;
and the epistemological character of reality is that it is experience.
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Reality,or the Absolute,
must be because appearances are the appearances of reality.
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In judgment,an idea is predicated of a real subject ;
a judgment is true insofar as it predicates harmonious content,
removing inconsistency -but since predicates are ideal,
every truth is but a partial truth,
every error but a partial error.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

"Ethical Studies" by Francis Herbert Bradley,1876


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To be morally responsible a person must be intelligent,
capable of making moral distinctions,un-coerced,
and actively involved in a situation in which not all of his behavior is predictable in advance.
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To ask,"Why should I moral ?" is to ask a senseless question,
for it presupposes the instrumentality of moral action.
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The sense in which morality as an end in itself is an end for man is that through moral action man realizes himself.
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Self-realization is a creative process whereby a self,
which is a unity,aims at the higher unity made possible through social cooperation with others.
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