Dualism and monism, and other essays

General Books publication date: 2009
Original publication date: 1895
Original Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons Subjects: Philosophy

Dualism

Monism

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Excerpt: 136 II. -- HEGEL'S VIEW. It should be noted regarding the history of philosophy that it is only, so to speak, a fragment of the history of man and the world. We may say regarding it that it is a history of the attempts made in different and successive times by reflective men to account for the fact (or being) and the cause of events and things. Philosophy is at least an effort after a fuller consciousness of the nature and meaning of things -- man and the world -- than is to be found in the observation of their actual happening. But the things that exist and happen are thus intimately connected with philosophy, or the reflection on their nature and ends. And the reflective or philosophical effort cannot either create or control these things on which it speculates. The philosopher is the spectator, not the creator, of the universe. Hence those results. 1. The question the philosopher puts in successive periods will vary, as to subject-matter at least, with the varying -- it may be developing -- facts of these periods. 2. The conceptions, thoughts, or categories in the light of which he seeks to set the facts of experience will also vary with these varying -- evolving -- facts. 3. It will be found impossible to detect in the successive periods conceptions or categories that are in harmony with any predevised sche...