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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... Burke stresses the limitations of our temporally situated reason and , on the other , he insists that institutional and social history is forma- tive in a quite thoroughgoing manner . We have our liberties , understand our rights ...
... Burke stresses the limitations of our temporally situated reason and , on the other , he insists that institutional and social history is forma- tive in a quite thoroughgoing manner . We have our liberties , understand our rights ...
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... Burke's position is to recognize that , in this world , whatever improve- ments or declensions have occurred , the peaceable kingdom lies neither ahead nor behind us . A human being cannot escape imperfection . No more , however , may ...
... Burke's position is to recognize that , in this world , whatever improve- ments or declensions have occurred , the peaceable kingdom lies neither ahead nor behind us . A human being cannot escape imperfection . No more , however , may ...
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... Burke through " horseway and footpath , " Woll- stonecraft rarely tackles the details of Burke's case directly . She does , however , recognize very clearly that Burke's is a critique of politics according to reason alone and that it ...
... Burke through " horseway and footpath , " Woll- stonecraft rarely tackles the details of Burke's case directly . She does , however , recognize very clearly that Burke's is a critique of politics according to reason alone and that it ...
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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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