Word: hegelianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tillich, then, is not as tolerant and broad-minded as many liberal Protestants would have him. In fact, Morality and Beyond shows clearly that Paul and Luther have been Tillich's main intellectual influences. The theologian has systematized the influence within a quasi-Hegelian hierarchy and has humanized it with subjectivistic notions from existentialism...
...inhalation of nitrous oxide made Hegelian philosophy some-what comprehensible--wonder of wonders!--to James. "What reader of Hegel," he writes, "can doubt that the sense of a perfected Being with all its otherness soaked up into itself, which dominates his whole philosophy, must have come from the prominence in his consciousness of mystical moods. . .? The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling." The bizarre consequences of the Hegelian system when applied to brute Anglo-American "facts" tend to vanish...
Thus, that most un-Hegelian of philosophers, William James, affords even a place in his trinity for the great German idealist. Nothing could attest more profoundly to the extraordinary eclectic potentialities of the Jamesian scheme or to its capacity to effect cultural rapprochement. But in a society where not knowing what to do or believe seems a much graver problem than not knowing how to do it, the triadic model has further importance. For James the test of a belief is its consequences for action and the test of an action, its consequences for pure experience. He starts with pure...
...this stage, the book becomes Joy Adamson's treatise on How to Bring Up a Cat, with problems familiar to those who keep one, but lifted to the heroic plane (by the Hegelian principle that quantity turns into quality: if you get enough of something, it becomes not just more of the same thing, but something else in itself). A selection of Mrs. Adamson's wisdom includes some notable deductions about cats of all sizes...