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...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...
...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...
PAINE PRIZES.Two prizes of $100 each, are offered by Hon, Robert Treat Paine "for the best essay by any students of the University on the ethical aspect of the modern social questions." One prize will be assigned for the best original investigation of some definite form of Chartly-work, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. The other prize will be assigned for the best original investigation of some special phase of the Labor Question, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. It is the intention of the founder to encourage first-hand research into present social conditions, and he indicates, though he does...
...reconciliation of the idealistic insight with the demanda of the rigid uter order of nature; to such a reconciltation the concluding assay must therefore devote itself. In the present discussion the chief reasons for idealism are summarized in an independent way, but with a deliberate ignoring of that aspect of truth upon which empitical science generally ways stres; and to which attention will be devoted in the next two lectures, idealism as thus stated must appear abstract and even fantastic. But distiuction of one aspect of the truth from another will aid unimately in the task of harmonizing these aspecis...