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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... moral rule is binding according to whether or not its fulfillment preserves or increases the overall happiness of human beings.12 Paley's method is empirical : he refuses to privilege on a priori grounds any particular sources of ...
... moral rule is binding according to whether or not its fulfillment preserves or increases the overall happiness of human beings.12 Paley's method is empirical : he refuses to privilege on a priori grounds any particular sources of ...
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... moral Governor on thee " is as important to Coleridge as it is absent from Paley's Principles.24 Thus , Coleridge comments that a phrase of St. Bernard of Clairvaux , " Nothing , Lord , that is Thine can suffice me without Thyself ...
... moral Governor on thee " is as important to Coleridge as it is absent from Paley's Principles.24 Thus , Coleridge comments that a phrase of St. Bernard of Clairvaux , " Nothing , Lord , that is Thine can suffice me without Thyself ...
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... moral agency . The state , as a balance of progressive and permanent forces , in itself looks toward , anticipates , the nisus formativus of a national church . In the latter , the body politic finds its security and the manifestation ...
... moral agency . The state , as a balance of progressive and permanent forces , in itself looks toward , anticipates , the nisus formativus of a national church . In the latter , the body politic finds its security and the manifestation ...
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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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