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Single Idea 23044

[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism ]

Full Idea

All knowledge is seen on ultimate analysis to rest upon the idea of a fundamental unity between subject and object, between the knower and that which there is to be known.

Gist of Idea

All knowledge rests on a fundamental unity between the knower and what is known

Source

report of T.H. Green (works [1875]) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State III

Book Ref

Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.47

A Reaction

I don't really understand this thought, but I think it embodies the essence of Hegelian idealism. If I know a tree in the wood, any 'unity' between us strikes as merely imaginary. If the tree isn't separate, what does 'knowing' it mean?

The 15 ideas from 'works'

23027 Ideals and metaphysics are practical, not imaginative or speculative [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23030 Truth is a relation to a whole of organised knowledge in the collection of rational minds [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23044 All knowledge rests on a fundamental unity between the knower and what is known [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23034 The ultimate test for truth is the systematic interdependence in nature [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23032 What is distinctive of human life is the desire for self-improvement [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23033 Hedonism offers no satisfaction, because what we desire is self-betterment [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23045 Politics is compromises, which seem supported by a social contract, but express the will of no one [Green,TH]
23031 God is the ideal end of the mature mind's final development [Green,TH]
23050 The ideal is a society in which all citizens are ladies and gentlemen [Green,TH]
23036 The good is identified by the capacities of its participants [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23039 A true state is only unified and stabilised by acknowledging individuality [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23038 People only develop their personality through co-operation with the social whole [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23040 If something develops, its true nature is embodied in its end [Green,TH]
23041 God is the realisation of the possibilities of each man's self [Green,TH]
23052 Enfranchisement is an end in itself; it makes a person moral, and gives a basis for respect [Green,TH]