Coleridge and the Conservative ImaginationMercer University Press, 2003 - 286 Seiten Why should anyone bother with Coleridge either as a theologian or a political theorist? At first in desperation, but now quite deliberately, Alan Gregory convincingly suggests that one should bother because Coleridge mounted an imporant critique of reductionist explanations of human society and moral agency, and because Coleridge has much regarding that important enterprise to teach us still. While Gregory also offers a perceptive outline of early British conservatism, his main concern is with Coleridge's attack on reductionism, including his defense of the will against associationism, his criticisms of Enlightenment historiography, his discussions of the inadequacies of political economy, and the Trinitarian arguments against monism. There is, Gregory remarks, no grasping the range or inner dynamic of Coleridge's thought without appreciating his religious vision, his theology. Indeed, Coleridge himself affirmed that should we try to conceive a man without the ideas of God, eternity, freedom, will, absolute truth, of the good, the true, the beautiful, the infinite...the man will have vanished. |
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... abstract reason run wild . Each is " sacrificed to the shadowy idol of ALL " in the name of a reason that will have no truck with , and brook no resistance from , the particularities of social and individual history . This is reason ...
... abstract reason run wild . Each is " sacrificed to the shadowy idol of ALL " in the name of a reason that will have no truck with , and brook no resistance from , the particularities of social and individual history . This is reason ...
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... abstract rationalism and an alienated understanding . Thus , if the Jacobins ran wild with the Rights of Man , and the abstract sovereignty of the people , their antagonists flew off as extravagantly from the sober good sense of our ...
... abstract rationalism and an alienated understanding . Thus , if the Jacobins ran wild with the Rights of Man , and the abstract sovereignty of the people , their antagonists flew off as extravagantly from the sober good sense of our ...
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... abstract knowledge " in which " we think of ourselves as separated beings , and place nature in antithesis to mind , as object to subject , thing to thought , death to life . " 55 At this point , the political implications of the ...
... abstract knowledge " in which " we think of ourselves as separated beings , and place nature in antithesis to mind , as object to subject , thing to thought , death to life . " 55 At this point , the political implications of the ...
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The Later Political Writings | 27 |
Philosophical Psychology and Conservative Politics | 39 |
Imagination and the Wisdom of History | 81 |
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