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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... existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein , by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom , moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race , the whole , at one time , is never old ...
... existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein , by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom , moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race , the whole , at one time , is never old ...
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... existence are to be sought for in that which is below it ; the grounds of its intelligibility in that which is above it . " Coleridge , Church and State , 183. The importance of this formulation will be discussed in chap . 6 below . 65 ...
... existence are to be sought for in that which is below it ; the grounds of its intelligibility in that which is above it . " Coleridge , Church and State , 183. The importance of this formulation will be discussed in chap . 6 below . 65 ...
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... existence of a national church , a “ church by law established , " is a social necessity , its absence or its vulnerability to political change creates a social vacuum . Such a vacuum invites two dire consequences . On the one hand ...
... existence of a national church , a “ church by law established , " is a social necessity , its absence or its vulnerability to political change creates a social vacuum . Such a vacuum invites two dire consequences . On the one hand ...
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The Later Political Writings | 27 |
Philosophical Psychology and Conservative Politics | 39 |
Imagination and the Wisdom of History | 81 |
Urheberrecht | |
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