Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There will be a regular meeting of the Harvard Electric Club tonight at 7.30 p. m. in the club room in Lawrence. Mr. W. C. Sabine of the Physical department will speak on self induction...
...consciousn ss. This was the actual idea which Hegel chose to bury in a mass of barbaric words. Each one of us, Hegel said, is what some other moment of his life finds him reflectively to be. All consciousness is merely an appeal to other consciousness, to a past self. The more we commune with others, the richer this past consciousness becomes. An attempt to attain holiness through separation from the world is therefore useless. True, spiritual life lies rather in struggling with sin and overcoming...
...Hegel's Doctrine of the Paradox of self-consciousness...
...things in space and time must conform to rigid laws, such as the law of causation. For our active understanding, in thinking our world, is bound by its own nature, in order to preserve as it were our very sanity (or, as Kant would say, the Unity of our self-consciousness), to regard all observed facts as conforming to laws. Yet these laws of Nature, which science studies, are the very creation of our own understanding acting upon the data of our senses. Such laws are not the laws of an unknowable real world at all. They hold only...
...Complete Self and the World of Experience...