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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... activity . " The analytic , abstracting activity of the under- standing , the activity that gives us the world of distinct entities set over against a distinct subjectivity , if taken as goal and not means , prevents knowledge of the ...
... activity . " The analytic , abstracting activity of the under- standing , the activity that gives us the world of distinct entities set over against a distinct subjectivity , if taken as goal and not means , prevents knowledge of the ...
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... activity : the turn towards ideas and , thereby , the formation of principles . Coleridge offers his prose as an environment for educing the " germinal power " of the mind . The contrast found in The Friend between education as ...
... activity : the turn towards ideas and , thereby , the formation of principles . Coleridge offers his prose as an environment for educing the " germinal power " of the mind . The contrast found in The Friend between education as ...
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... activity of discerning and producing symbols , makes possible this identification . The form of things present and to come are discovered in the events and relations of biblical history . The opening of The Statesman's Manual places the ...
... activity of discerning and producing symbols , makes possible this identification . The form of things present and to come are discovered in the events and relations of biblical history . The opening of The Statesman's Manual places 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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