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Ideas for Anaxarchus, T.H. Green and Anon (Tor)

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

23027	Ideals and metaphysics are practical, not imaginative or speculative [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
	Full Idea: To T.H. Green an ideal was no creation of an idle imagination, metaphysics no mere play of the speculative reason. Ideals were the most solid, and metaphysics the most practical thing about a man.
	From: report of T.H. Green (works [1875]) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State I
	A reaction: This is despite the fact that Green was an idealist in the Hegelian tradition. I like this. I see it not just as ideals having practical guiding influence, but also that ideals themselves arising out of experience.