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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... rhetorical force of the way this history is structured is directed at modern philosophy , in particular at " the progress of materialism and infidelity on to the time immediately before the French Revolution . " 17 Despite the ...
... rhetorical force of the way this history is structured is directed at modern philosophy , in particular at " the progress of materialism and infidelity on to the time immediately before the French Revolution . " 17 Despite the ...
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... rhetorical imperative.54 Underlying the description of Jacobin and anti - Jacobin extremes is , once again , the epistemological distinction of reason and understanding . While the distinction is nowhere explicitly mentioned , Coleridge ...
... rhetorical imperative.54 Underlying the description of Jacobin and anti - Jacobin extremes is , once again , the epistemological distinction of reason and understanding . While the distinction is nowhere explicitly mentioned , Coleridge ...
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... rhetorical whole , giving due weight to the discussion of the Christian church and , especially , to the appendix . Much interpretation of On the Constitution of the Church and State has concentrated upon the first part and the ...
... rhetorical whole , giving due weight to the discussion of the Christian church and , especially , to the appendix . Much interpretation of On the Constitution of the Church and State has concentrated upon the first part and the ...
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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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