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GERMAN.- Tutoring in German A, B, C and 9. Also, if desired, in the higher German courses. Call after 7.30 p. m., or address...
GERMAN.- Tutoring in German A, B, C and 9. Also, if desired, in the higher German courses. Call after 7.30 p. m., or address...
...religious consciousness, and the one into which this first superficial optimism easily passes, is Mysticism of the type exemplified by Spinoza and by the "Imitation." This declares evil to be a necessary truth from the finite and relative point of view, but declares it to be nevertheless in a higher sense, and from the absolute point of view, an illusion. Yet this notion again, as our historical discussion has shown, proves to be very near indeed to a pessimism. The way from Spinoza to Schopenhauer is short...
GERMAN.- Tutoring in German A, B, C and 9. Also, if desired, in the higher German courses. Call after 7.30 p. m., or address...
Such being the general point of view of the lecture, the particular topics next discussed were: (1) The objection that the modern doctrine of evolution, in assigning a "low origin" to all significant things, deprives the world of all higher and ideal significance. (2) The objection that empirical students of evolution are often unaware of the teleological and ideal nature of their own presuppositions, so that it seems doubtful whether their presuppositions actually have this ideal character. To both these objections the same response was made. The doctrine of evolution has its purely naturalistic as well as its teleological side...