Single Idea 23041

[catalogued under 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity]

Full Idea

God is identical with the self of every man in the sense of being the realisation of its determinate possibilities.…In being conscious of himself man is conscious of God and thus knows that God is, but only in so far as he knows what he himself really is.

Gist of Idea

God is the realisation of the possibilities of each man's self

Source

T.H. Green (works [1875], iii:226-7), quoted by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State II

Book Reference

Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.43


A Reaction

Does this, by the transitivity of identity, imply the identity of all individual men? Do we all contain identical possibilities, which converge on a unified concept of God? I always take the monotheistic God to far exceed mere human possibilities.