Single Idea 23027

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly]

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 Reference

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.