Word: inner
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Representative Men and Issues of Modern Philosophy. Lecture XI: The Inner Lite and Laws of Nature. Professor Royce. Sanders Theatre...
...Inner Life and Laws of Nature...
...modern realism. He was a naturalist who studied nature only to find out in it the expressions of divine will. Hegel built up an inadequate but interesting philosophy of history, trying to explain on a Kantian basis the theory of human life. He could not get into the inner facts of nature but this was the first onslaught of constructive idealism upon realism. This onslaught failed, but men began to realize that nature's mysteries were not unfathomable. The mysteries are of a spiritual nature but can only be studied through the outside world by means of science. The object...
Schopenhauer's style is in contrast with his temperament. He was morbidly pessimistic and vain, but his style is lucid and clear. His great work is the "World as Will and Idea." He asks what one's true nature is and comes to the conclusion that the whole inner life is in the will, i. e., the active nature as such. This is deeper than intellect and at the basis of all seeing and knowing...
...Historical consequences of the controversy, direct and indirect; its value for the study of the inner life...