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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... extremes of superstition and atheism , religion makes her appearance as the " virtuous mean " whose modesty of appearance is equidistant from the fanaticism of superstitious and atheistic extremes . In her , passion and reason are ...
... extremes of superstition and atheism , religion makes her appearance as the " virtuous mean " whose modesty of appearance is equidistant from the fanaticism of superstitious and atheistic extremes . In her , passion and reason are ...
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... extremes . This unstable opposition appears as the ideological and political expression of the tension between the dynamics of reason and understanding : " [ T ] he natural Man is always in a state either of resistance or of captivity ...
... extremes . This unstable opposition appears as the ideological and political expression of the tension between the dynamics of reason and understanding : " [ T ] he natural Man is always in a state either of resistance or of captivity ...
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... extremes , Coleridge places that " biblicized " Britain to which he appeals as the sermon opens . This is the land that has " like another Goshen been severed from the plague , " 3 the nation in which , as Coleridge subsequent- ly gives ...
... extremes , Coleridge places that " biblicized " Britain to which he appeals as the sermon opens . This is the land that has " like another Goshen been severed from the plague , " 3 the nation in which , as Coleridge subsequent- ly gives ...
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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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