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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... rational state . The fount of political evil , according to his argument , is " power long continued in the same individual " and the only way to prevent the political arteries thus hardening into a state of corruption is to make every ...
... rational state . The fount of political evil , according to his argument , is " power long continued in the same individual " and the only way to prevent the political arteries thus hardening into a state of corruption is to make every ...
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... rationality . Such a rationality tends toward reductionism in its accounts of nature and of human life . This is the ... rational decisions for the future can be made on the basis of past experience : " Alas ! like lights in the stern of ...
... rationality . Such a rationality tends toward reductionism in its accounts of nature and of human life . This is the ... rational decisions for the future can be made on the basis of past experience : " Alas ! like lights in the stern of ...
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... rational society is a chimera and to forget the at best only partly rational character of any existing society is to court disaster.74 Legislation in any existing society requires judging states of affairs that originate in contingent ...
... rational society is a chimera and to forget the at best only partly rational character of any existing society is to court disaster.74 Legislation in any existing society requires judging states of affairs that originate in contingent ...
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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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