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Single Idea 23027
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
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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.
Gist of Idea
Ideals and metaphysics are practical, not imaginative or speculative
Source
report of T.H. Green (works [1875]) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State I
Book Ref
Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.8
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.
The
15 ideas
from 'works'
23027
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Ideals and metaphysics are practical, not imaginative or speculative
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23030
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Truth is a relation to a whole of organised knowledge in the collection of rational minds
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23044
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All knowledge rests on a fundamental unity between the knower and what is known
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23034
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The ultimate test for truth is the systematic interdependence in nature
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23032
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What is distinctive of human life is the desire for self-improvement
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23033
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Hedonism offers no satisfaction, because what we desire is self-betterment
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23045
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Politics is compromises, which seem supported by a social contract, but express the will of no one
[Green,TH]
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23031
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God is the ideal end of the mature mind's final development
[Green,TH]
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23050
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The ideal is a society in which all citizens are ladies and gentlemen
[Green,TH]
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23036
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The good is identified by the capacities of its participants
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23039
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A true state is only unified and stabilised by acknowledging individuality
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23038
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People only develop their personality through co-operation with the social whole
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23040
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If something develops, its true nature is embodied in its end
[Green,TH]
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23041
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God is the realisation of the possibilities of each man's self
[Green,TH]
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23052
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Enfranchisement is an end in itself; it makes a person moral, and gives a basis for respect
[Green,TH]
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