Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...university men whom Mr. Winsor has met in England. Mr. Winsor speaks of the barren appearance of the college buildings and grounds at this season when the ivy on the old walls has disappeared and the trees have lost that thick foliage that makes English country so beautiful. The aspect of antiquity and decay that the buildings presented was not all pleasing. Inside the buildings, however, it was a different thing. The coziness of the college balls at Oxford and Cambridge was a thing that could not be found in either the Scotch universities or these of America. A dinner...
...well as its teleological side; it is essentially "Applied idealism" and as thus applied to or superposed upon a mechanical view of nature, it must, like the Seventeenth Century philosophy, assign "low origin" to ideal things. Only the important matter for philosophy is that the "low origin," the mechanical aspect of nature, does not forbid for our modern doctrine the interpretation of nature in teleological terms. The mechanism embodies purposes...
...defence, now, of this presupposition can only be given from an idealistic point of view. The lecture therefore suggested afresh the "double aspect" which Idealism gives to Reality, and set forth on this basis a hypothetical scheme of the process of the evolution of finite minds on this planet...
...lecture concluded with a general and negative criticism of the Spencerian formulas of evolution, and with a few practical suggestions as to the ethical aspect of the doctrine of evolution...
...describable, one finds that in the last resort they are essentially indescribable, being merely "appreciable." A further study of the meaning of this outcome leads to the result that the Realistic world must be once more interpreted in Idealistic terms, as a world that possesses essentially and necessarily two aspects, one which makes it relatively describable, while the other, and deeper aspect finds it to be essentially appreciable, and so the embodiment of "Ideals." or of "Purposes," which however are not to be considered as "effective in time," but as constituting the eternal "significance" of the world of the Self...