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Full Idea
God is a subject which is eternally all that the self-conscious subject as developed in time has the possibility of becoming.
Gist of Idea
God is the ideal end of the mature mind's final development
Source
T.H. Green (works [1875]), quoted 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.17
A Reaction
[Ethics p.197] Reminiscent of Peirce's account of truth, as the ideal end of enquiry. If God is a human ideal, we either limit God, or exaggerate our powers of idealisation.
Related Idea
Idea 14796 Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]
| 8148 | Brahma, supreme god and protector of the universe, arose from the ocean of existence [Anon (Upan)] |
| 7343 | Beside me there is no God [Isaiah] |
| 7994 | Everything, including the gods, comes from me, says Krishna [Anon (Bhag)] |
| 22726 | When things were unified, Mind set them in order [Anaxagoras] |
| 2629 | Anaxagoras was the first to say that the universe is directed by an intelligence [Anaxagoras, by Cicero] |
| 6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |
| 7835 | The key question for Spinoza is: is his God really a God? [Stewart,M on Spinoza] |
| 23031 | God is the ideal end of the mature mind's final development [Green,TH] |
| 4497 | The concept of 'God' represents a turning away from life, and a critique of life [Nietzsche] |